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They fought because they were tired of being alienated as English citizens and they did not like being under the rule of a king who was at so much fault. They even went to cite the grievances of the king in the Declaration of Independence. Taxation without representation was a reason, but it was not as big many of the others that are often forgotten.
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BlakeThe colonies went to war with England to break away from England so that they didn't have to do what England told them to do and they can make their own goverment/country with their rules/laws. They also went to war because England was putting taxes on their tea, paper and other goods.
They fought in order to get their freedom from England and be their own nation and make their own rules and move out west if they wanted to. They tried to be Good English citizens, but, England treated them as second class colonists and not first class English people with the rights accorded first class English people.
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Causes for the colonists and England war?
Independence.
Why did the Revolutionary War happen?
The people of America were angry. The colonists did not like to pay high taxes to the King of England. They did not pay the taxes. The King of England sent an army to America. The army tried to make the colonists pay the taxes. The colonists wanted to be free from England. They started to fight the soldiers of the English army in 1775. The Americans started a war with England. We call it the Revolutionary War. George Washington was the leader of the American army. France helped the Americans during the War. The Americans won the war in 1783. They were free from England.
What are the thirteen colonies?
THE ANSWER- I SEARCHED IT--During the years 1740 to 1770 the tension between England and the 13 colonies grew into a full scale war. Suffering from unjust taxation and tyrannical rule, the colonists tried to change and influence the English policy through repeated petitioning and boycotts. After failing to influence England through peaceful measures, war was the colonists' only option. The 13 colonies were therefore justified in starting a revolt against England. According to England however the colonists were not justified in waging war. England was the mother country and the colonists paid the lowest taxes in the world. Being that the colonists benefited from the French and Indian war, colonial help in paying back the debt was expected. The 13 colonies unnecessarily resorted to violence and propaganda in which a minority of Patriots influenced other colonists to believe in a "New England" problem. Despite England's reasons as to why the 13 colonies were wrong to declare war, the colonists were justified in waging war. The colonists in the Declaration of Independence clearly stated their grievances and case against England, declaring to the world the reasons that caused them to separate and fight to become the United States of America.
What magior events happened in 1675?
The New England colonists went to war with the natives
Why did the colonists break their social contract?
Technically the colonistss did'nt break their social contract. The King of England decided to impose unfair and unjust taxes and demands on the colonists which broke his end of the social contract with the colonists. therefore, the colonists decided to break off from England, eventually resulting in the Revolutionary War.
