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Question: Evaluate the relative importance of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776: *parliamentary taxation *British military measures *restrictions of civil liberties *the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas.

Introduction:
a. Time Frame/organization of the paper:
As a result of the Seven Years’ War, Britain was buried in debt caused by instigating war to safeguard the colonies. Manipulating the colonies into taxation in order to pay debt resulted in resentment toward the British. From the years of 1763 leading up to 1776, Parliament sanctioned acts requiring taxes to remunerate their debt. Thus, stemming to the arousal of the colonists.

b. Thesis Statement:
Due to the violation of civil and economic rights, the colonists’ resentment towards Britain grew substantially, thus prominent to the American Revolution.

Body:
a. Sub-Thesis 1: Acts authorized by Parliament to defecate debts instigated a rebellious fever in the colonists.
a. Facts to support sub-thesis:
i. Grenville’s Policies: Sugar act of 1763, Enforce navigation, Stamp Act of 1765, and Quartering Act of 1765. ii. Currency Act iii. Declaratory Act iv. Townshend Duties
v. Tea Act

b. Sub-thesis 2: Britain, trying to remain control of roused up colonists, used military force to implement their order.
a. Facts to support sub-thesis
i. 2 regiments of troops in Boston ii. Stamp Act to support military. iii. Increased troop deployment to train American militia. iv. Troops along Proclamation Line
v. Lexington and Concord troops vi. Quartering Act invading privacy.

c. Sub-thesis 3: Colonists were infuriated believing to have been stripped of their civil liberties.
i. Facts to support sub-thesis ii. Admiralty courts iii. Guilty until proven self innocent iv. Taxation without representation
v. Writs of

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