To What Extent Was The British To Blame For The Revolutionary War

It's a challenging task to point the finger of blame at one sole country for starting a war. Although there is never one country entirely responsible for starting warfare there is commonly one country that is more at fault than the other. In the case of the Revolutionary War, I believe the British were to blame for igniting the flames of revolution due to their overtaxing of the colonists and practice of mercantilism. The war itself though was completely unnecessary and should never have taken place.
One of the main reasons the war started was because of Britain's adopted policy of mercantilism. When the British colonists first settled in the New World, they were allowed to grow and thrive with minimal interference from Britain, until Britain began using the colonies as their main resource in their practice of mercantilism. In 1651, the Navigation Acts were passed, which were a series of laws that prevented the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. Britain merely thought of the colonies as cows to be milked and utilized the colonies for their raw goods. They imported the raw goods from the colonies, processed them into manufactured goods, and sold back the manufactured goods to the colonies for a high profit.
In 1754, the French and Indian war broke out over land arguments and ended in 1763 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Britain was in great debt due to the war and the King and Parliament believed that they had the right to tax the colonies. They passed the Stamp Act in 1765, which required any paper products to have a stamp that would allow the product to be taxed. The colonists were outraged at the fact that Britain could tax the colonies without representing them in Parliament, so they boycotted the tax and began preaching, "no taxation without