Here are some:
- Enlightenment ideas (ex John Locke)
- 7 Years War (Britain in debt; needed money; decided to tax colonists)
- taxes/acts imposed on the colonists by the British (ex tax on sugar, Intolerable Acts)
- colonists did not have direct representation in Parliament; "no taxation without representation"
- Boston Massacre (propaganda to incite patriotic/revolutionary feelings)
- Lexington and Concord; "shot heard 'round the world"
What are some causes of the Revolutionary War?
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