There is only one root cause for the American Revolution. That being: "Taxation." You see, most, if not all, of those truly well-off Colonists who had political influence within the Colony in which they lived were opposed to paying money to the Empire of Great Britain or King George III. Each and every event that eventually resulted in the American Revolution began in 1765 with the imposition of a tax leveyed by the British Empire.

That's when the Empire of Great Britain imposed the first tax on goods and services that were sold to the Colonists, coming from merchants and companies that were owned by people within the British Empire. Prior to 1765 King George III defended the Colonists against the French and the American Indians who sided with the French in order to take away those Colonies from Great Britain. British troops came to the colonies in order to accomplish that task, which was truly a costly event for the British Empire and now, King George III wanted those Colonists to pay for that successful defense of those Colonies.

As a matter of fact, each and every tax imposed by Great Britain from 1765, right up to the time when the shooting war began, was bitterly contested by the each of the political leaders within each and every British Colony within what is now the United States of America.

After the Boston Tea Party, King George III sent troops to the Colonies in order to defend the property of those British business people. Ben Franklin was ejected from London and King George III also decided to impose some form of taxation, whether those Colonists liked it or not.

"No taxation without representation" was now the rallying cry for those Colonists, and the eventual exchange of fire was now the war for our independence from British rule. We won, only because King George III decided that the cost to regain those Colonies was more than the wealth that those Colonies contained. You see, most of the cost of those troops that were sent to fight against those rebels were paid for by the wealthy British Subjects who owned those businesses that sold goods to the Colonies.

Those business people were losing a whole lot of money and not getting back the cost of the troops who were fighting in their behalf, and also in the behalf of King George III. To make matters worse, Ben Franklin was now in France and he was doing his best to gain the support of the King of France, in order to cast off British rule. The last thing that King George III wanted was another war against France. Back in those days, the imperialist activities of each and every Country in Europe was due mainly to gaining great wealth from all of the places on Earth where such wealth is found.

The poor leadership of those British generals, together with the fact that Great Britain didn't have enough troops within the Colonies to defeat the rebels in all places and the huge loss of income to Great Britain's World Trading Companies ended the conflict and resulted in our independence from Great Britain.

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