Spiritual And Economic Causes Of The American Revolution

American Revolution, started from New England to the South, culminated with the Declaration of Independence. Both spiritual and economic factors exerted crucial influences on this monumental event. American Revolution was doomed to be launched.

Economically, benefits of both upper-classes and lower-classes were offended respectively by Great Britain dominators and English businessmen. After the French and Indian War, British governors wanted to squeeze much more money from colonists as protection fee. On one hand, as for the rich such as merchants in New England and plantation owners in the South, Great Britain soon implemented increasingly restricted acts on colonial currency exchanges and taxations as soon as Salutary Neglect was ended. Although these capitalists had several negotiations with British governors, British’s callous refusal and avarice gradually planted resent seeds in colonists’ heart. On the other hand, as for the labors such as city
As for the upper-classes, who were also the highly-educated people, had already been edified during Deism and the Enlightenment period. Deism and the Enlightenment period, against the rigid doctrines of Puritanism, awakened those high-level people to become open-minded. They tended to trust nature and their own power instead of religious faiths. Thus, it was British governors’ endless obstruction that stimulated their ambition to own complete freedom. As for the lower-classes, it was quite difficult for them to awaken by themselves because what they did days and nights was only to make a living. Thanks to the best-selling pamphlet called Common Sense, farmers and workers would have a sense of mission instead of merely working for scanty wages. Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, motivated them to fight for freedom in such a straight and simple way. Labors realized that they could also gain individual freedom if they fought against foreign