Even with both the English and the Americans willing to compromise and make deals‚ it would have been very hard to prevent the War for independence. The American enlightenment‚ however‚ could have been stopped. A large majority of Americans wanted independence from England mainly because of the way they were being ruled. Of the Americans that wanted to break away were from many backgrounds‚ they came from all over the social ladder and from all over the world. If they didn’t all come together to
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migrated to the New World were farmers‚ land and its value was of dire importance to the people of the late-1700s. With the numbers reading that the richest 40% of the population held at least 90% of the land in 1773‚ it seems as if democracy was short on this end of the stick. Between 1756 and 1773‚ the number of landless people nearly doubled. And as time passed‚ there was less terrain to be
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fighting for their freedom from Britain. An event that occurred here greatly influenced the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the high tea prices within the colonies in 1773. The Boston Tea Party was on December 16‚ 1773 in Boston‚ Massachusetts lead by the Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams. On this date‚ the colonists dressed up as Indians to mask their identity and went onto the ships and threw all of the British tea into the harbor. This greatly
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population decreased‚ it deprived the Indians from their most powerful weapon-the ability to have the rival Europeans against one another. This lead to the Pontiac’s uprising in 1763‚ which killed some two thousand soldiers and settlers heading west past the Appalachians. After the uprising‚ the British created the Proclamation of 1763. It would prohibit settlement beyond the Appalachians‚ and was meant to protect the eastern colonies from another uprising as the Pontiac uprising‚ and would work out the
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In 1763‚ a worldwide imperial conflict called the Seven Year’s War ended in resounding victory for the British Empire‚ which smashed its European rivals to emerge from the conflict as one of the largest and most powerful empires in world history. During the war the British and Americans became a unifying force standing side by side‚ but short while later they were the ones in conflict with one another. England was left with an even larger debt‚ from the French and Indian War‚ than what they had started
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Classical Opera THE question of what sort of music should be employed in opera is a fundamental one‚ and has given rise to more controversies‚ heart-burnings‚ and recriminations than any other matter‚ since it lies at the root of all differences between schools or individuals. In the earliest times‚ we find a declamatory style; in the works of the Venetians‚ melody asserts itself; with Scarlatti‚ musical learning is pressed into service; in the epoch of Handel‚ a conventional form dominates the
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individual rights and developed thoughts of their own government. There were three significant protests in the eighteenth-century American backcountry‚ March of the Paxton Boys‚ which were Scots-Irish frontiersmen from Pennsylvania who created a group in 1763 reacting towards local native Americans during the aftereffects of the French and Indian War as well as Pontiac’s Rebellion; Shays’ Rebellion‚ which were a chain of protest by American farmers from New Hampshire
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Farmer he talks about how living in America is better than living in Europe in 1763. During this time‚ countless Europeans wanted to leave Europe because of increased poverty‚ religious freedom‚ and poor harvest seasons. Immigrating to America was a good idea during the 1700’s‚ but now its not. Many changes have occurred since 1763 like discrimination‚ lack of jobs‚ and requirements to be a US citizen. Since 1763‚ The United States has made a list of requirements on how an individual can enter
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developed a vast network of rivers and a supply chain to support interior trade far away from the main settlement. This exploration of the interior was further necessitated by the declining stocks of beaver. This first period of competition ended in 1763‚ when the French gave over their North American land to the English. The next period that followed saw Montreal based trapping firms grow and merge until a powerful company known as the North West Company emerged. Through the incentives the North West
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Proclamation Line of 1763‚ the Tea Act‚ and The Sugar Act. In all‚ the
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