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THE CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION <Tab/>American Revolution which was from 1775-83, was a struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. <Tab/>In 1763, after the French and Indian War, the British King, George III, issued a Royal Proclamation. This proclamation stated …

…French form of civil law. The Thirteen Colonies considered this law one of the Intolerable Acts. because the American colonists wanted more assemblies and democracy. They also wanted to expand into the Ohio Valley, but Britain ruled out all of these things. All of the colonies sent delegates to Philadelphia, where the First Continental Congress was being held. In this Congress the delegates took the first steps towards independence, which helped bring on the Revolution.