Causes of the American Revolution

"Give me liberty or give me death."

1. Desire for political liberty

"No taxation without representation"

2. Political representation

"There ought to be no more New England men, New Yorkers...but all of us Americans."

3. National Unity

"I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American Independence."

(Refers to Great Britain's restrictions on American trade with the West Indies)

4. Economic Freedom