Compare and Contrast the Independence Movements in Terms of Causes, Practices, and Effects

Many factors fueled the independence movements in Anglo-America, Spanish-America, and Portuguese-America. There were a number of similar and different causes present in all three of the Americas. Likewise, the practices had their similarities and differences. When it came to the effects, however, there was more similarity than difference.
The causes that inspired the independence movements of these Americas were all characterized by the desire for freedom from their respective mother countries. The first similar cause was taxation. In the Anglo-America (America) struggle, the taxation enforcement came at the end of salutary neglect, at the conclusion of the seven years war between England and France. During salutary neglect, taxes passed in Britain were unenforced or uncollected in the colonies. Salutary neglect ended with the Sugar Act of 1764, replacing the Molasses Act of 1733. The Sugar Act was a small tax but it was enforced. After its enforcement, American colonies started ...