British oppression: the cause of the American Revolution?

The American Revolution was costly and bloody war that granted the Americans the independence for which they fought. This 8-year-long revolutionary war from 1775 to 1783 is considered one of the greatest revolutions of all time in that the Americans had defeated the most powerful nation in the world at the time, Great Britain. The American Revolution is a critical event in the history of the United States and has been explored and evaluated by numerous historians …

…be the cause of the revolutionary war. Not only were the British oppressing the colonists before the Seven Year's War with acts such as the Navigation Acts, but by 1760 England was starting to rule ruthlessly and oppress the colonies especially in the economic aspect. Lecky, one of the ablest historians mentions in "History of England that: "The deliberate selfishness of the English commercial legislation was digging a chasm between the mother country and the colonists."