十八世纪下半叶爆发的北美殖民地人民反对英国殖民统治的战争，结束了英国在那里的统治，美国诞生。引发这场战争的导火索是税收。从十七世纪初到十八世纪中叶，英国在北美洲先后建立了十三个殖民地。当时英国政府对这些殖民地的政策是使其成为英国工业品的销售市场和廉价原料? The birth of the United States ended with the British rule over the colonial rule of North American colonies erupted in the second half of the eighteenth century. The trigger for the war is tax revenue. From the early seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth century, Britain established 13 colonies successively in North America. At the time the British government’s policy toward these colonies was to make it a market and a cheap raw material for British industrial goods?