Revolution was the ignorance of the British. The irritated colonists were hostile towards

the supposed 'mother country' of Great Britain as it tried to reconcile with them. Just as a

neglected child would have bitter resentment towards its parent once the parent sought

action, so were the American colonists. The cause of the American Revolution began

when Great Britain stopped paying attention to the colonies, and absorbed into its own

affairs, politely 'ignoring' the colonies it started. Everything else that triggered the minds

of these revolutionaries was the effect caused by Britain's salutary neglect of the

When the early settlers came to the newly discovered continent of America, their

intentions were rather simple. Beginning from the Pilgrims in Plymouth and the Puritans

in the Massachusetts Bay colony, God was the main focus of their colonization. Both

groups were upset of the development of the church of England, and in attempt to purify

it, they sought new lives in the colonies. The development of Jamestown in Virginia was

a concept similar to the ones used during the 1500s when exploration was promoted: for

time, they felt they had no or very little connection with the original 'mother country'.

country, but because the British had neglected them, that tie was cut. The colonists were

significance of the colonies earlier, maybe the colonies would feel they had to pay the

now Americans, and they were angry. Why did the British think they had the right to

have been different. The colonists would have supported the British during its 'War for

themselves the way they thought was right and had succeeded in doing so as Great

traveling in 1,000 wagons not considering the law.

The early English settlers were long gone and buried. The new generations that came

had paid more attention to them, and had not given them the treatment of salutary

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