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    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

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    on the political relationship between the American colonists and Britain because this lead to the Proclamation of 1763. Britain believed they owned every land that they touched and this made conflict with the Native Americans. The Native Americans believed that they "had no right to settle" and they must " insist on removing them"(Doc A). The Britain created the Proclamation of 1763 thinking of decreasing the conflict but this added on to resentment in colonists’ hearts. ***Some political changes

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    Colonial 1. 1971 “Between 1607 and 1763‚ Americans gained control of their political and economic institutions.” To what extent and in what ways do you agree or disagree with this statement? 2. 1972 What role did unfree labor play in colonial American society? 3. 1973 From 1600 to 1763‚ several European nations vied for control of the North American continent. Why did England win the struggle? 4. 1974 “Puritanism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction.” Apply this generalization

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    supplies to the British soldiers. In 1767‚ the Townshend Acts were introduced. This taxed goods the colonists used often. It made the “Writs of Assistance”. This allowed British officers to search a ship’s cargo without a reason. The Tea Act was passed in 1773 and because it taxed tea‚ the Sons of Liberty and many other colonists were infuriated. The Intolerable Acts were

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    A Brief History of Mental Health in United States‚ 1773-1982 by Frank Rider‚ National Federation of Families (05-11) 1773: The first hospital for the mentally ill in the US opened in Williamsburg‚ Virginia. 1840: There were only eight “asylums for the insane” in the United States. Dorothea Dix crusaded for the establishment or enlargement of 32 mental hospitals‚ and transfer of those with mental illness from almshouses and jails. First attempt to measure the extent of mental illness and mental

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    of men towards boston harbor. The act of american colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. for more refuge seeking to boost the troubled East India Company‚ British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston‚ New York‚ and Philadelphia all very much rejected tea shipments‚merchants in boston refused to concede to patriot pressure because they don’t want to sell the tea of traitors. On the night of December 16‚1773‚ Samuel

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    protection of Britain during the war‚ also known as parliamentary sovereignty. Along with the debt‚ there were tensions with the natives in the land due to the decreasing space in proportion to the British expansion of territory. The Treaty of Paris of 1763 was also signed‚ giving French control over Canada to Britain. While there were still disputes over how government revenue should be raised‚ the occurrence of these events

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    Wheatley wanted to praise different things and talk about her ideas. I think because she was a slave writing was the only opportunity to discuss her thoughts about Christianity‚ salvation or history. Her poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773) Wheatley describes her own history. The speaker was brought from the “pagan land” (line 1) to America by mercy and because of this mercy the speaker was able to convert to Christianity. Before he came to America he knew nothing about a God or even

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    The movie Johnny Tremain helped me gain more knowledge about the American Revolution from a different perspective. Johnny Tremain is a work of historical fiction‚ combining real people and events like Paul Revere‚ Sons of Liberty‚ and the Boston Tea Party‚ and fictional ones like Jonathan Tremain‚ Priscilla Lapham‚ and Ephraim Lapham. The fictional characters‚ although these people did not historically exist‚ gave me a personal insight to the actual events that occurred such as the Boston Tea Party

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    The war that was caused by one Virginia militia officer named George Washington‚ when he attacked French soldiers in western Pennsylvania. This was seen as the “spark” of the French and Indian war‚ and soon after this war‚ a great change in history. The war would end the French being defeated‚ while the British would go on to claim New France for themselves but was also left with a large amount of debt. Even after the colonists helped the British in the war‚ they were restricted by the British and

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