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What caused shortages of goods in the colonies during the american revolution

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It was because Great Britian blocked United State ports. So we could not trade with any other nation and so we had a shortage of goods.
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England was the main supplier of goods to the New World, and since the New World and England were at war, shipments stopped.
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