Which event do you think was the most important cause of the American revolution Why?

Answer 1

I think that the sugar act was the most important cause in the American revolution because it was the first tax on the American colonies made by the British Parliament. Its purpose was to raise funds through the colonial customs service and to give customs agents more power and liberty with respect to executing seizures and enforcing customs law. That the Act came from an external body rather than a colonial legislature alarmed a handful of colonial leaders in Boston who held that the Act violated their "British privileges". Their principle complaint was against taxation without representation. Just as important, however, were the Act's thoughtful association for the colonial judicial system, for the Revenue Act of 1764 allowed British officers to try colonists who violated the new duties at a new Vice-Admiralty court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, thus depriving the colonists of their right to trial by a jury of their peers. The seriousness of this was not lost on the Massachusetts Legislature: "The extension of the powers of the courts of vice-admiralty has, so far as the jurisdiction of the said courts hath been extended, deprived the colonies of one of the most valuable of English liberties, trials by juries" (Petition from the Massachusetts Legislature to the House of Commons, 3 November 1764). The Act also established new trial procedures which essentially freed customs officers from all responsibility and from effective civil suits for damages in colonial courts. While a handful of colonial leaders recognized the grave implications of the Revenue Act, it was not until news of the Stamp Act reached the colonies that the seeds of rebellion were planted in the hearts and minds of the broader public

Answer 2

the main cause was the taxes that where put on the Americans. the Americans belived that they shoudnt get takes because they were away from England and they started the revolutionary war

Answer 3

The biggest cause for the American Revolutionary War was American wanting its independence from Britain, to act as its own country, and to not have British Parliament ruling.