Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
Slavery and weather or not states would be admitted as slave or free was perhaps the single defining issue of the 20 years leading up to and during the civil war.

As stated in the declaration...many colonists allready had their own forms of governemnt in place when the crown came in to surpress them after the fact and after they said they wouldnt do any such thing.
I dont think the Crown did anything to suppress the colonists that isn't standard procedure now. Once again, they barely taxed them, knowingly let them smuggle in their own goods, and as for the British ruling the colonists? Ben Frankling (one of the more respected founding fathers himself) was the primary emissary to the Crown, John Adams was the mayor of Boston. The Founding fathers were the ones in power, hence, they got an entire group to revolt