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    Alice Berlin December 18‚ 2013 Social Studies- Period 9 DBQ Introduction Restate Thesis. The Navigation Acts were issued in 1763 soon after The Proclamation of 1763. The Navigation Act required the 13 colonies to only use British ships‚ and any goods the 13 colonies bought had to go through England first to be inspected. This was one of the first acts that really got the patriots into the rebellion mode. Restated Thesis. Taxation without representation was common in the 13 colonies. Colonists

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    Revolution. The Stamp Act was a tax created by the Parliament that required people to buy stamps for paper transactions such as newspapers‚ legal documents and playing cards. The stamps were to be bought only with specie‚ which was hard to get because it was scarce. The colonists mostly used paper money or credit. This tax affected everyone in the colonies‚ from the wealthy to the poor‚ to business owners‚ to lawyers‚ and even commoners. Colonial assemblies saw the stamp act as infringement on their

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    "For Imposing Taxes on us Without our Consent" The section of the Declaration of Independence titled "The Charges Against the King is extremely important. The English Declaration of Rights included a similar section‚ so without indicating the revolutions’ causes it would have been very difficult to justify independence. Today and during the time of the revolution many of the accusations seemed rather weak and unsupported. However there were some that were considered by all to be significant infractions

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    many taxes such as Sugar act‚ Stamp act‚ and the Townshend act. George was in a war known as the revolutionary war and played an unknown role in that war. George had lost the war and it came to an end by the Treaty of Paris. King George iii was a vital role in the American Revolution. One role King George role that was vital by King George in American Revolution was all the taxes he had put on the colonists such as such as the sugar act‚ stamp act‚ and the townshend act. The first parliament passed

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    the Sugar Act and soon the Townshend Act which was crucial because this all then lead to the Revolution along with the result of more colonial unity. Due to the French and Indian War there was the Sugar Act of 1764. England was in debt from the French and Indian War which is major because prior to the French and Indian War they were not. Their debt then lead to them finding ways to tax. Such as the Sugar Act‚ which was minor compared to the tax on tea later coming from the Townshend Act. This was

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    incident remains an iconic event of American history‚ and other political protests often refer to it. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act‚ which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation‚" that is‚ be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which

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    Revolutionary War. Boston is the capital of Massachusetts Bay. Boston is a major shipping town. The year 1768 major things happened. One of the biggest ones was the Townshend acts being passed by the British Parliament. The Townshend acts were a series of acts past to help Britain control the colonist over in the “New World.” The townshend acts were passed because

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    Navigation Acts of 1660‚ the French and Indian War: 1754-1763‚ Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763‚ the Sugar Act of 1764‚ the Stamp Act of 1765‚ the Declaratory Act of 1766‚ the Townshend Act of 1767‚ the Boston Massacre of 1770‚ the Boston Tea Party of 1773‚ and the Intolerable Acts of 1774‚ all helped lead and start the American Revolution. As you can tell‚ all of these acts made the colonists really mad. The one that started their hatred for the British was the Navigation Acts of 1660‚

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    they had done for the past one hundred years. So the British government passed acts such as the Townshend Revenue Act‚ which put a tax on tea‚ paper‚ paint‚ and lead. These acts forced the American colonists to pay off some of the great debt left by the Seven Years War. Some acts even allowed the British regular troops to stay in the colonists’ houses. The colonists were given no say in any one of these laws and acts. The colonists then began the outcry “No taxation without representation!” This

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    From the very beginning‚ (when the colonists first migrated to America) the colonists were displeased with Great Britain’s law-makings and government. When diplomatic options and agreements with Great Britain failed‚ America realized it was time to act and retaliate. The colonists’ disagreements with Great Britain’s law-makings‚ the specific unforgettable conflicts/events the colonists had with Great Britain‚ and the great desire for individuality‚ and freedom of rights of the colonists ultimately

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