Colonial Unity on the Eve of the Revolution

Colonials unified greatly on the Eve of the Revolution. They realized that they were being used, or "milked like a cow", in order for England to increasingly gain gold. Essentially the colonists were being taxed by a nation hundreds of miles of away. By this time, America had showed it self to be fairly independent, fighting alongside the British in the French-Indian War. Not only this, but they were also economically unified. Virginia was eyed with contempt by the mother country, because of their one dimensional economics. Mercantilism stifled economic independence, because America were controlled by England in the way that they traded. America was not permitted to trade with other nations, another factor that added wood to the fire of revolutionary rage. Impoverished and restless Americans were ready to rebel.