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Causes (brief)

  • Mercantilist restrictions on colonial trade (Navigation Acts)
  • Taxation without colonial representation in Parliament (Stamp Act, Tea Act)
  • Enforcement of British authority after the Seven Years' War debts
  • Direct exposure to Enlightenment ideas through colonial elites educated in English and Scottish universities
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