The American Revolution was mainly provoked because of the unwanted high taxes that colonies had to pay so British can pay their war debt. The French Indian war was the biggest cause of the high taxes which lead to certain acts like stamp act and sugar act which was very harsh for the colonies as they had to give high taxes on daily use items and all this taxes was without permission of the colonies. Colonist were also angry as they had no representation in parliament so they were not able to provide
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was an agreement between Great Britain‚ France‚ Spain and Portugal agreeing that France would move out all of their colonial conquests from North America leaving Britain to be the leading power house in the Americas. This treaty was one of many agreements‚ proclamations‚ negotiations and conferences that lead to the American Revolutionary War starting in 1775 and then the freedom from England for America in 1776. The French and Amerindians had a working relationship. The French were very accepting
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British reforms after the French and Indian War After the great war of the French and the Indians‚ Britain became the controlling authority in America‚ this came in the grimes of resentment and dissatisfaction from the other colonists. The British increased taxes demanded from the American colonists in which the previous taxation systems were lower than those demanded from mainland English citizens. The revenue coming from taxation was used to pay for their defense. Moreover‚ the fund contributions
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English-Indian Relations The relationship between the Native Americans and the English can in no sense be referred to as a “friendship”. From the first interactions between the two peoples‚ tensions were high. The English Puritans pushed to convert the Natives‚ and land hungry colonists moved further onto their territory. The Native Americans retaliated but could not hold their ground in the end. The aftermath of all of this could be called a sense of tolerance between the Native Americans and
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The French and Indian War started in 1754 and concluded in 1763. This war was a crucial turning point in American history. During this time‚ English colonists were attempting to move farther west to the Ohio Valley. This is where the French held their trading posts. This move only infuriated them even more. Accordingly‚ the French aimed to assemble a strong military‚ Fort Duquense‚ to defend against the English colonists. This seemed to fail in a way and resulted in others taking action. Virginians
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lived in colonies. Colonies were large areas of land ruled by the nations of Europe. For the most part‚ Britain ruled the thirteen colonies in America. Britain was very far away. It took weeks to sail across the Atlantic Ocean by ship. It was difficult to send people or messages back and forth that made colonists feel independent. They thought they could run their own lives. They had their own leaders and they made their own laws. At first‚ Britain let the colonists do as they pleased. Britain wanted
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European colonies with French initially in the north and down the Mississippi. The arrival of European settlers in the late 1500s-early 1600s in North America disrupted the Native American tribes that had been living peacefully there for centuries. The responses European settlers had to Native American tribes reflected their own cultural and economic viewpoints. As a result‚ the Native Americans’ lives changed drastically. The French had developed peaceful‚ mutually beneficial relations with Native
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The relation between the early colonists and Native-American Indians through American settlers and Native-Americans changed so drastically due to many tragic factors. Although the biggest factor would have to be that the settlers saw the Native-Americans as savages and felt that they needed to alter their cultural ways to the European ways. The Sand Creek massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn were two events that greatly affected the relations among the settlers and the Native Americans. These
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From the end of the French and Indian War to 1776‚ when the Declaration of Independence was signed‚ the British imperial policies‚ like the Stamp Acts‚ Quartering Acts and the Proclamation Line of 1963‚ angered the colonists enough to start a rebellion. The rebellion started strong in the New England colonies with them smuggling things from other countries‚ and it ended even stronger with their commitment to their republican values. The Stamp Act and Quartering Acts were some of the first imperial
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United Sates. These early relations include associations with the global superpowers Britain‚ France‚ and Spain. It was no different during the Civil War‚ with the relations between the Union and Confederacy. Eventually‚ the Union won the war largely in part because the Union caused diplomatic issues between the Confederacy and their international allies‚ other allies supported them and the other countries have other wars to deal with. The American Civil War was a war fought by America on itself
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