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  The Causes of the American Revolution How the Colonials Won Creating a New Nation-State   Background America in 1775 was a very different English colony than in 1700. In 1700, America was a poor "country" compared to England. By 1775, America's total output was about 40% of England's. America's total output and population were growing faster. Besides providing raw material imports that England taxed and exported to other countries, America was becoming an important market for English manufactured goods. America also provided ships, shipbuilding, and sailors that could augment the British merchant marine  and navy in times of war. But England had to be careful. America  was a very different colony in 1775 than in 1700. Its population was much greater and more diverse. In 1700, almost all the white population in the 1600s came from England. But in the 1700s, about half of immigrants from England were convicts forced to serve long indenture terms in the American co...

  Colonial Farm Kitchen. Notice clock in the corner. American Colonial History, 1607-1775   THE 1600s Preliminary Comments   About 350,000 Europeans emigrated to the American colonies in the 1600s. They were risk-takers. They left long-settled communities and societies to get on small, crowded sailing ships to make the dangerous 3,000 voyage to a new land that was mostly wilderness. About 5% died. They had to adapt to a new, frontier environment of forests and swamps. They had to “ tame the howling wilderness .”  A high percent of the European immigrants in this period were from England. Almost all were Protestants.   Emigrants from England came over in three “waves.”  Then a fourth 'wave" came to the North American colonies in the 1700s. They were four distinctly different groups of people from different areas of the English isles.   To understand why these four groups left England and Scotland, at different times and for different reasons, ...