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=**Reading the Web**= =**5th Grade Social Studies Project**= =**The American Revolution**=

Why was there an American Revolution?
For many many years the British, the French, and the American Indians fought over land in the New World. This cost the British a lot of money. The British government, called Parliment, began taxing the settlers in the American Colonies. The American Colonists were mad with King George III. They were not given a chance to tell the British Parliment that they did not like paying taxes. The American Colonists thought this tax was unfair. This was called, "taxation without representation."


 * To learn more about the American Revolution, click on the navigation bar and learned what happened when the colonist became upset about the taxes!**