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What was the Revolutionary movement really all about and the amount of taxation? The right of government to tax? The political corruption of Britain and the virtue of America? The right of a king to govern America? The colonies' growing sense of national identity apart from Britian?

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The American Revolution was about all of those things. In general, you will find the revolutions occur not because of one particular thing but from a culmination of things that causes a group of people to call for change. Sometimes revolutions are violent in nature - sometimes they are simply culture or intellectual revolutions. However, one thing each revolution has in common is the fact that it is the culmination of the desire for some sort of chance.

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