America's War of Independence was a political and military struggle among the thirteen American colonies and England. Since the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in the French and Indian War, the result was British control over much of North America. This was had cost England a great deal of money and Parliament decided it was time for the colonies to pay a share for their own defense. The movement to resist the …
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…of the colonists rebellion against the British rule contributed to an even greater wanting to govern themselves under their own nation. After years of "salutary neglect," the new policies were, of course, unwelcome. England and America's differences, which came to seem irreconcilable, propelled them into a war that would change history forever. The policies and acts the British so suddenly burdened the colonists with lead to the American Revolution which, in the beginning, was inevitable.