Analyzing the obvious perspectives in the famous Thomas Paine's, Common Sense and Reverend Samuel Seabury's, Letters of a Westchester Farmer, there were a handful of causes that led to the American Revolution, also known as the U.S war of independence. The conflict began in 1775, between the people of Great Britain's thirteen North American colonies and the colonial government. The American people were beyond independent, they felt that since Great Britain was an entire ocean away, why should they be the ones to tell them how to live? The American people wanted nothing, but to do things for themselves. Great Britain's government decided that they would force the thirteen colonies to pay a substantial amount of war debt from the French and