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Historians believe that the Americans won the War for Independence because the British lost. What does that mean?

Although the British had many advantages in the early stages of the War for Independence, the Americans possessed a few as well such as:

In the darkest period of its revolution, France demanded support from the Americans. This caused problems for Washington because…

The Parliamentary Act that forbade American expansion west of the Appalachian Mts was the 

British soldiers stationed in Boston were harassing the citizens in the streets and eventually opened fire despite pleas for mercy during the Boston Massacre.

Angry with Parliament’s persistence on unfair treatment in the colonies, the Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians and dumped hundreds of crates filled with tea into Boston Harbor. This became known as:

After the Boston Massacre, Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts but kept a tax on this staple commodity

This group of people supported the ratification of the Constitution and eventually became a powerful political party in the United States

The American colonists were angry with incessant British taxes primarily on the grounds that they were not adequately represented in England