Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8453
Points per Word
0.000237
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
This book takes a detailed look at the causes of resentment felt by the colonists over taxation on goods and settlement restrictions introduced by the British government and explains how, by 1774, the colonies had reached the brink of warfare.