I would go with Lavish Spending by the royal court.
Versailles had over 30 water fountains? Each were power by hand.
I know financing the American Revolution was expensive, and took several decades to pay back France.
America considers it paid particularly from WWI and WWII.
The American Revolutionary War would be the correct answer
by charging high shipping rates
America was founded by immigrants, I believe immigrants have a right to be here and have the freedoms we do as long as they do so LEGALLY