American Revolution Analogies

You may want to review what caused the American revolution.

What you describe was literally the cause of the revolutionary war in the US!

I think quirkafleeg above answered on American revolution.

Don't forget what they had previously done in the American Revolution.

Look into the American Revolution.

The early leaders of the United States originally wanted the rights due them as British subjects. It turned into a full revolution later.

I think an argument could be made for "No Taxation without Representation", one of the causes of the American Revolution.

Sure am glad the people who fought the revolutionary war against England didn’t think like you.

> Ordinary American citizens didn't like the idea of being colonizers, since they had, not long ago, been a colony themselves and fought to free themselves.Bad comparison: the American Revolution was a group of colonialists rebelling against their colonialist bosses, not a rebellion of the colonised against the coloniser. Indeed, one of the American Revolution’s complaints was that London was too protective of Native American rights, and was limiting its colonies expansion into Native

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_WarNotice the years this war was waged. The British were definitely not cool with the American colony seceding.