Emilie Costa September 10‚ 2012 Period 3 In an effort to pay off war debt and maintain control and authority over the colonies‚ Britain established the Declaratory‚ Tea and Intolerable Acts‚ which resulted in unity among the colonies to fight for their freedom. Before the Declaratory Act‚ the people of the colonies were angered with the establishment of the Stamp Act. A statement was sent to Britain’s Parliament from the colonies stating there should be “No taxation without
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In 1775‚ the American Revolutionary War eventuated amidst the American colonists and the British after years of surging tension and the opposition of British rule. This ascent in apprehension and hostility was the result of a variety of political‚ economical‚ and social conflicts that arose following the end of the Seven Years War in 1763. One could argue that it was the influence of the Enlightenment thinkers‚ who valued reason‚ science‚ religious tolerance‚ and the rights of life‚ liberty‚ and
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1766- The Stamp Act is repealed. 1768- British troops arrive in Boston to enforce laws. 1770- Four workers are shot by British troops stationed in Boston. The American Patriots labeled the killings "The Boston Massacre." 1773- Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians protest the British Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British Tea Act was when the British increased the taxes on tea that were shipped to the colonies. 1774- Benjamin Franklin and the
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Although many think of the American Revolution as a conflict between the righteous colonists and the villainous British‚ the situation in the colonies escalated by the fault of both parties. Americans acquired much wealth during the period of salutary neglect from 1713 to 1763‚ but the British had accumulated a massive national debt during the Seven Years’ War at the end of this period. In order to reduce the national debt‚ Britain began taxing the prosperous Americans. Thus began the first of three
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would intimidate tax agents. A third instance where they took more control of the colonies was when they created the “Intolerable Acts‚” or the Coercive Acts. These were laws created in with the goal of retaliating against the Boston Tea Party. It punished the people of Boston and Massachusetts by prohibiting trade into and out of the port‚ reduced power of the Massachusetts legislature‚ and allowed royal officials to be tired in England rather than in the colonies. These acts were the final straw
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There were many events that took place in the 1760’s and 1770’s that led to the Revolutionary war. During these years the British did many things that upset the colonists. These upset colonists would eventually get sick of all the British ways and fight for their freedom. Many events crucial the Revolutionary War took place in the 1760’s‚ such as the Sugar Act‚ Stamp Act‚ and Declaratory Act. The Sugar Act of 1764 set an import tax on foreign sugar‚ molasses‚ and rum entering Britain’s American
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(Document C). The Tea Act made the colonies economically inferior to that of England’s. The Tea Act was an act where the colonies merchants were being evaded and the British took over the trading. This hurt the economic success of the colonists‚ multitudes strengthened in resentment and soon after the Boston Tea Party followed (Document F). The British were furious at the colonial resistance to British law. In retaliation the Intolerable Act was passed. The Intolerable Act deactivated the Boston Port at Massachusetts
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colonies was tea. People were furious they had to pay taxes on sugar and molasses.(doc 2)
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CHAPTER 5 The American Revolution: From Elite Protest To Popular Revolt‚ 1763-1783 SUMMARY This chapter covers the years that saw the colonies emerge as an independent nation. The colonial rebellion began as a protest on the part of the gentry‚ but military victory required that thousands of ordinary men and women dedicate themselves to the ideals of republicanism. I. STRUCTURE OF COLONIAL SOCIETY In the period following the Seven Years’ War‚ Americans looked to the future with great optimism
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colonies. Most of the colonists went on peacefully and accepted it until parliament’s enactment of the Tea Act in 1773‚ a bill designed to save the faltering British east India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it monopoly on the American tea trade. In retaliation‚ the colonists in Massachusetts planned “The Boston Tea Party”‚ which involved dumping British tea into the Boston harbor. Parliament was so
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