A long-held view of the history of English colonies that became the United States has been that England's policy toward these colonies before 1763 was dictated by commercial interests and that a change to a more imperial policy , dominated by expansionist militarist objectives , generated the tensions that ultimately led to the American Revolution .
一個對于后來成了美國的英國殖民地的歷史的長久以來的觀點，認為英國在1763年以前對于這些殖民地的政策被經(jīng)濟利益所支配，而且認為一種向著更大程度帝國制度的政策上的轉(zhuǎn)變——為擴張主義的軍事目標所左右——產(chǎn)生了最終導致美國革命的緊張氣氛。