That description of American Colonists is exactly why there was a rebellion.
The English treated the colonists like second-class citizens, going so far as to try to get Ben Franklin to answer for things like the Tea Party, while he was in England, and a Loyalist.
The simplistic “rebelled over taxation” is just a representation of how the Crown and European Brits viewed and treated the colonists.
Colonists didn’t quit Britain, the Briton’s quit on the Colonists.
That description of American Colonists is exactly why there was a rebellion.
The English treated the colonists like second-class citizens, going so far as to try to get Ben Franklin to answer for things like the Tea Party, while he was in England, and a Loyalist.
The simplistic “rebelled over taxation” is just a representation of how the Crown and European Brits viewed and treated the colonists.
Colonists didn’t quit Britain, the Briton’s quit on the Colonists.