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Causes of the American Revolution

Britain may have won the French & Indian War, but there was a cost to the triumph: Britain was flat broke. At the time, taxing the American Colonists must have seemed like a great solution to their cash-flow problems. In retrospect, though, the decision was one of many that would lead to a revolution.

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