List Of Reasons Why The Colonists Were Angry Enough To Revolt

The primary
reason the colonists revolted was that they believed--correctly--that they had been denied their
rights as Englishmen. There is some argument that after the French
and Indian War, Americans developed a feeling of "separateness" from the Empire, that
is that they were more American and less English. This feeling of separateness accelerated AFTER
fighting broke out; however it was not the reason Americans rebelled in the first
place.

After the French and Indian War, Britain took the unusual step of
taxing the colonists for the cost of the war. Colonists had been taxed before, but
those...