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[–] bb22 ago 

It was more complicated than that. The real impetus from the upper classes of colonial society was a bunch of predatory debt schemes. This is why Washington and Jefferson were both in debt, like many of the southern planter class. The British were trying to control our currency’s value and generally treating us like servants, denying us of our rights under English common law. Frontiersmen felt betrayed because the British weren’t doing enough to stop Indian raids. Many people had many different complaints.