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CAUSES

1. FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR How did this specifically make the revolution happen? Americans developed more unity and military skill through success of war. Boosted confidence War gave Britain “license” to interfere more in colonies’ day-to-day life Did not need Britain in order to fight French British felt they needed Americans to repay war debt that was crippling British economy

2. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION Intolerable Acts (= all acts overall) [Navigation, Townshend, Tea, Stamp, etc. etc.] Enforcement enraged colonists, esp. merchants Corrupt colonial officials First Continental Congress (Albany Congress?) Realized they were better off with own representation than Britain’s Committees of correspondence / Sons of Liberty to boycott British goods Circular Letters

3. GREAT AWAKENING First unification of country Effect on revolution???

4. COMMON SENSE Reached masses 600,000 read it Allied even non-Anglo colonists in resistance

5. DEVELOPED AMERICAN IDENTITY

6. TERRITORIAL EXPANSION Britain wanted to limit it Colonists promoted it Confrontations with Indians in frontier but no British support