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American colonies' break from British rule
There was a lot of them. :)
It is the Northern Americas which Britain occupied the most.
There were a number of things that happened as a result of a land shortage in the British colonies. People fought for the land available for example.
Thomas Paine called for a revolution and he challenged the colonists to cut their ties with the British government. He wrote that people should rule themselves.