The principle cause of the war was that those states harbored and supported the actions of pirates against American shipping vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.
Answer:
Valuable goods like cotton were essentially the main drivers of conflict between European Countries in the Americas.
The reason why European Countries established colonies in the Americas in the first place was to obtain valuable goods that could only be produced or found there: goods like cotton, rice and sugarcane.
The possession of territories were these goods were produced often resulted in armed conflict. The French-Indian war, which occurred two decades before the American Revolution, is an example.
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none of the continent is smaller than Europe and Australia.
They are listed last in the rankings of largest to smallest in land area.
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