Answer:
increased goverment spending
Explanation:
Gov is spending money, so they need more
The main reason the colonists waited for over a year after fighting broke out at lexington and concord to declare their independence is because they want to make sure they had the funds and alliances necessary to fight a war with Britain, since they were the most powerful nation in the world at the time.
The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807.