Two such examples are “Sharecropping and Agricultural Uncertainty”[2] and “Economic Burden: Spark to the American Revolution?” “Economic Burden: Spark to the American Revolution?” examines the generally accepted claim that financial burdens on the American colonists in the prerevolutionary era were one of the causal factors that drove the colonists to the overthrow British rule.
This legislature, among other things, made it necessary that all foreign trade with the colonies go through England.
[3] Compared with other nations, colonists experienced less of a tax burden than anyone and had a higher standard of living.
Additionally, the being under British rule gave the colonialists many benefits, such as military protection from the Native Americans.
Ultimately, Reid concludes that “conflicting economic interests sufficed to start the American Revolution.”[4]