The main factor that caused the colonists to rebel was the heavy taxation. The colonists were taxed heavily from the beginning, but the taxes that caused the most strife occurred in the 1760's. Due to the fact that George III suffered from bouts of insanity, Prime Minister George Greenville had almost total control of the parliament. He agreed with the prevailing opinion within Britain that the colonists had been too long indulged and that they should be compelled to obey the laws and to pay off parts of the cost of defending and administering in the empire. The Greenville ministry made a number of the efforts to increase England's control of the colonies. Greenville sent British troops

The factor that I believe played the second most important part in prompting the Colonists to rebel 1776 was the restriction of their civil liberties. When the Treaty of 1776, England was truly at peace for the first time in more than 50 years. Since the British government wasn't distracted by war they could turn their attention to the organization of their empire. Since England had enormous debts from many years of fighting, England was just desperately in need of new revenues from its empire. When England gained great amounts of territory in 1763, the area of the British Empire was doubled and controlling the newly acquired lands was made many times more complex. Some argued that the empire should restrain rapid settlement and development of the Western territories. Others wanted to see the new territories open for immediate development, but they disagreed among themselves about who should control the western lands. Others argued that controls should remain in England, the territories should be considered in turn the new colonies, unlinked to the existing settlements. These choices would be decided later.

The response of the colonists to wall of the new laws wasn't quiet submission, rather it was open protest. In 1763, a band of Pennsylvania frontiersmen known as the Paxton Boys went to Philadelphia to demand relief from taxation. There was no bloodshed due to the response of the colonial government. This conflict ended in peace, but others were not as fortunate. In 1771, a small "Civil War" broke out as a result of the Regulator movement in North Carolina. The Regulators were farmers who were nice to oppose the high taxes that local shares collected. The western counties were badly underrepresented in the Colonial Assembly, and the Regulators failed to win a compensation of their grievances there. Finally they armed themselves and began resisting tax collections by force. To suppress the revolt, Gov. William Tryon raised an army of militiamen, who defeated a band of 2000 Regulators in the Battle of Alamance. Nine men on each side were killed and hundreds of others were wounded.

The primary reason the colonists rebelled was to be free, free from taxes, free from restrictions, and free from the British tyranny. All these factors by themselves were oppressive in their own right, but the period before the actual revolution was anything but one. A revolution, as seen throughout history, is always deeply

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