over a hundred years, they saw no reason to change it. However, following the great expenses of the French and Indian war, the New Duties act was passed in England, enacting taxes upon colonial purchases and sales of glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea. Soon to follow was the Stamp Act, which taxed all printed papers. Frustrated by this new
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to rebel due to the excessive taxation on Tea, Stamps and Sugar. Beginning with the Tea Act of 1773, this was one of the several taxes imposed on the American colonist due to indebted British government. Typically the Tea Tax is mistaken to be thought of as something the government did to raise revenue… but it wasn’t. Its main purpose was to bail out the East India Company. The British government places a company monopoly on the importation and sale of tea to the colonies. The colonist did not accept
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Over the course of 7 years (1689-1697), the tension between between France, Spain and England grew and caused the first worldwide war; in order to gain control over the West Indies, Canada and the trade in the English colonies.The Native Americans were being driven away because the English needed more land for plantations and ports. King William’s War, was provoked because the English were expanding rapidly and the Natives were being pushed out and weren't strong enough to fight against the Europeans
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and fighting broke out. Included in this all are the following; The Navigation acts, The French and Indian war, Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763, The sugar act, The stamp act, The Declaratory act, The Townsend act, The Boston massacre, The Boston tea party, And the Intolerable acts. It was a time of chaos for the colonists. The first thing that happened was the Navigation act. The Navigation act of 1660 Was the Navigation act that bad? Yes, yes it
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution * The Deep Roots of Revolution * Two ideas taken root in the minds of murican colonists (18th century) * REPUBLICANISM : defined a just society as one in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish interests to the common good * Both stability of society and authority of government depended on virtue of citizenry (its capacity for selflessness, self-sufficiency, and courage, especially its appetite for civic involvement
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Parliament even though they were ignored. I also believe the colonist were being taken advantage of and had the right to protest the taxes laid upon them. 4. Look at the cartoon of the “Boston Massacre” on pg. 43. In your opinion, what was the purpose of the artist in depicting this event? In the cartoon of the “Boston Massacre” the purpose of the artist in depicting this event is to show a contrast between the British and the colonists. The artist is trying to provoke anger towards the British through
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day of the Boston Tea Party or as previously called The Destruction of the Tea. This was an act of rebellion towards British parliament due to the ongoing conflicts involving the unfair taxation of the colonies with out there representation. The sons of liberty Were the group who planned and successfully carried out the Boston tea party. There are 116 known participants recorded, but due to the fear of punishment many others stayed anonymous. The unrest leading to the Boston tea party was directly
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The Seven Years’ War was also called the French and Indian War. It was a war fought by the French and the English over who would control the North American continent and India. At the beginning of the war the French had the best advantage because they had most of the Native Americans as their allies and they a chain of forts strategically located throughout the frontier. All the English had going for them was that they had a bigger population of people than the French had. The English knew that
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answer. Adams was not only an extremist but a political writer speaking to issues that directly affected colonies like the Stamp Act and tea distribution from East India. Both of these events affected many colonists in a negative way because the Stamp Act added taxation to certain products, while India tea imports, caused some colonists to lose money from their own tea sells. Adams would have had to ask himself why these acts where just or unjust by analyzing them individually in a literal sense. He
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the colonies by taxing sugar, trade, and tea. However, the colonists were not represented in parliament fairly and felt that the taxes violated the English Bill of Rights. Even though many colonists took part in the Boston Tea Party and unloaded gallons of costly taxed tea into the Boston Harbor, the colonists were justified in this act of rebellion because it was their representation of the
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