Er, wasn't the one-word cause of the American Revolution "taxation" ? (The one-word cause of the American Civil War would probably be "slavery", though).
> Er, wasn't the one-word cause of the American Revolution "taxation" ?
No, “disenfranchisement”. Read the Declaration, it was about usurpations of the right of the people to govern themselves. “No...without representation” is the key part, not “taxation”.
That's been inverted for propaganda purposes by modern anti-tax activists.
But, in a any case, “slavery” would have to be the Civil War, the Texas Revolution, or—indirectly, by way of the previous item—the Mexican-American War.
No, “disenfranchisement”. Read the Declaration, it was about usurpations of the right of the people to govern themselves. “No...without representation” is the key part, not “taxation”.
That's been inverted for propaganda purposes by modern anti-tax activists.
But, in a any case, “slavery” would have to be the Civil War, the Texas Revolution, or—indirectly, by way of the previous item—the Mexican-American War.