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Why did American colonists fight to form a new nation?

In the beginning of the war, colonists were upset that they were being taxed from the British, for a war they had nothing to do with. Many of the colonists rebeled and they wanted to be independent. So all and all. They fought to form a new nation because they didn't want to be under British rule; a country 3,000 miles away.


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I think you are confused because it was not up to the colonists to protect British rule. It was up to the British forces.


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It gave the American colonists a powerful argument for independence from British rule.


Who led the American colonists to rebel against British rule?

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What is the authors purpose in both Patrick Henry's speech and Thomas paines common sense?

To convince the colonists to break away from British rule


What other people had created a climate for revolution among masses before 1776?

The British had made the colonists branch away from their government because the king had done several things under his rule that upset the colonists.


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Americans were British and therefore were under English rule. The king owned the colonies and he could make laws at will.


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