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Question: The reason the colonist rebeled against the british!?
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Decades of taxation without representation in Parliament, suppression of the development of industry, generally treated as a cash-cow rather than a legitmate entity, punitive taxation, general high-handed treatment of the colonies by their royally-appointed governors, requiring support of English soldiers: generally a lot of things that by themselves might not have been enough to sway enough support to make a bid for independence, but the cumulative effect was too much!.

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Religious oppression!. They came to get away from the oppressive churches in Europe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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