They year 1765 was the beginning of the anti-British sentiments in the American colonies. This is where many colonists started boycotting‚ and making groups such as‚ the sons of liberty and the daughters of liberty. It began when Lord Grenville who added on some taxes to the already made sugar and tobacco taxes‚ made by Lord Bute. There were many taxes‚ but the ones that placed the most resentment to the colonists were the Sugar Acts‚ which put 3 more pennies per gallon of sugar‚ the Quartering Act
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the British. The Boston Tea Party transpired after the increased tax on tea in 1773. Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped barrels of tea over the Boston Harbor. Believing the Native Americans had dumped the tea‚ the British were ready to end trade and fight with the natives. Loyalists informed the British of what the radical colonists had done and the Coercive and Quebec acts were imposed by the British as a consequence. US land was given to Canada and the Boston Harbor was closed
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The coercive acts happened in March 1774 and it happened in Boston‚ Massachusetts. It happened because Parliament wanted to pass a new set of laws to punish the colonists in Massachusetts. The colonists called the new sets of law the Coercive Acts because people were forced to obey the laws. The Coercive was a harsh law that punished the colonists harshly and to punish them further‚ the British stopped the legislature to make any more laws. The colony was under control of the British general and
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Citizens in America were tired of British laws and regulations being forced upon them by Britain‚ specifically extraneous amounts of taxation. A British officer in Boston wrote a letter expressing his opinions on the large amounts of taxation: “What‚ in God’s name‚ are ye all about in England? Have you forgot us?” (McCollough 9). Patterson indicates that the revolutionaries in America wrote a document‚ the Declaration
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fighting & wars. The following events led to the Revolutionary War : The Navigation Acts of 1660‚ The French & Indian War‚ Pontiac’s Rebellion‚ Proclamation of 1763‚ The Sugar Act‚ Stamp Act‚ Declaratory Act of 1766‚ Townshend Act‚ Boston Massacre 1770‚ Boston Tea Party‚ and The Intolerable Acts. On the whole‚ all this traumatic fighting and wars are what we say caused the Revolutionary War. The 12 events listed above occurred for all sorts of reasons. It all started with the Navigation Acts of
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REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT The reasons for the American Revolutionary Movement are diverse and numerous; however‚ one reason stands above them all: economics. Ever since the first settlers began to colonize the United States‚ economics have been present as the foundation for the country. Our society today is derived from money matters just as it was in the time before and during the Revolution. The British fighting the French and Indian War was a base for strong financial changes that led to the Revolution
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and which they understandably were residing negative and white men were removed from the area Sugar Act 1764 -Refined sugar imported by the colonies Taxed all luxury items like silk‚ and molasses. st 1 Committee of Correspondence in Mass. Boston experimented with Boycotts “No taxation without representation” Colonist were angry by sugar act and many smuggled molasses in. Northern colonies organized protest and other colonies warned royal governors that tax was unfair. Currency Act 1764
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Bibliography: Henretta‚ James A.‚ Rebecca Edwards‚ and Robert O. Self. America: A Concise History‚ Vol.1: to 1877. 5th ed.‚ Boston: Bedford/St. Martin ’s‚ 2012. Lancaster‚ Bruce‚ The American Heritage History of the American Revolution‚ New York: American Heritage Publishing‚ 1971. Morison‚ Samuel Eliot‚ The Oxford History of the American People‚ New York: Oxford University Press
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The people of Concord experienced colonial imperialism much differently than those who lived in Boston. Unlike Boston‚ Concord was not a major port city. It also did not have British regulars present on a daily basis. Concordians had many problems within their own borders they were more concerned with than the events caused by the colonies strained relationship with Britain (Robert A Gross‚ Minutemen and Their World. Page 10). This is not to say Concord did not take part in colonial activities to
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the Intolerable Acts were the British response to the Boston Tea Party. In December 1773‚ colonist boarded a British cargo ship and dumped 90‚000 lbs. of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act. The Prime Minister of England‚ Lord North‚ responded by passing four laws that would punish the colonist for the destruction of the tea. The first law was that Boston Harbor would be closed until the colonist paid for the destroyed tea. This law was meant to cripple commercial life at one
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