Running head: AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1 American Revolution Student’s Name University Affiliation Professor’s name Course title Date AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 American Revolution The factors that motivated the colonialists that helped ignite the American Revolution included taxation without representation, coercive and intolerable acts as well as the corruption and control of the British government (Tilly, 2017). . Taxation without representation is the difference of opinions that emerged between colonists and the British regarding taxation representation in parliament. Since Britain was recovering losses from the French and Indian wars, the colonies were required to remit revenues to the government (Tilly, 2017). Therefore, colonists believed that the taxes were illegal since they no actual representation. Consequently, if they were to be taxed by the parliament at the time, they need ...
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