Explaining The Root Cause Of The American Revolution

The Declaration gives us a fairly lengthy list of problems however, fails to explain the root cause. The reason behind the American colonies was to help British economy expand and provided new life and opportunities to those who are anxious to leave Europe. Virginia was the first colony established in 1607 and, Pilgrim Fathers colonization New England in 1620. The British government did not pay much attention to the colonies. For about a century and a half went unbothered. In 1660, after reestablishing his throne, King James II organized up some of his charters. Shortly after the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 William and Mary’s government restructured and organized the way colonies were governed and managed. The colonies were largely ignore for at least another half a century by the British government and the colonists were enjoying the freedom in which they were receiving out of this neglect. …show more content…
The British and French engaged in a great number of wars during the eighteenth century. Majority of these wars where fought in North American, Europe and India and was becoming dangerously expensive. The British managed to send French crown into bankrupted and that in turn help get the French Revaluation started. British made great attempts to tackle the problem of cost earlier in the war, however, when the Seven Year War in 1763, the British government started to look into the American colonists for contributions. Their army did protect the colonist from the French coming across the Atlantic and protected them from the Native Americans out of the west, or so the British argued, and the British though it was only fair that the colonist should pay