The ideologies and beliefs that drove the movement for independence from Great Britain were continually evolving and changing as is human thought and logic. There were no distinct indicators to look at to say that a human event or thought was the motivating factor of the revolution. Events in that era were always in motion, as times of revolution must be. Dynamic changes in the way people lived and made a living, in the way they saw their world and their new country, and, above all, the way they saw the place they came from, shaped the way they the revolution happened. In addition to how Americans now saw themselves as distinctly American, there was the Stamp Act enacted by Parliament and Southern regulators that was a driving factor that led to the Revolutionary War throughout the colonies. From 1763 to 1765, several acts were passed Parliament would help raise revenue to help pay for the large costs of the Seven Years' War and to maintain the presence of troops in the colonies. During this period, several laws were passed by Parliament, such as the Sugar Act, which was strictly enforced, and the Currency Act, which forced the colonies to depend on Great Britain for their paper money. Perhaps the best-known action taken by Parliament that served to bind the colonies together and create the conditions for revolution was the Stamp Act passed in November 1765. This act imposed a tax on such things as newspapers, playing cards, legal documents, papers from play. and dice. These duties were already in place in England, so Grenville argued that it was natural to extend them to the American colonies. In England, the Stamp Act worked well and was widely accepted. Therefore, the British government was very surprised at the vehemence with which the colonists opposed it... middle of paper... littering could have been avoided. However, one must ask, without the violent riots and back-and-forth arguments, could real and lasting change have occurred? Works Cited Hoffman, Elizabeth and Jon Gjerde. Major Issues in American History: Volume 1 to 1877. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. Morgan, Edmund. The birth of the Republic 1763-89. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Nash, Gary, et al. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011. Avena, Lynne, and Pauline Sadler. “ACCOUNTING FOR THE STAMP LAW CRISIS.” Journal of Accounting Historians 35, no. 2 (December 2008): 101-143. Business SourceComplete, EBSCOhost (accessed February 19, 2012).Simmons, RC The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1976.