which put a tax on paper, paint, lead, glass and tea. In 1766, the Declaratory Act was passed and it declared that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies both internally and externally and had absolute power over the colonial legislatures. In 1773, there was a huge rebellion when the Tea Act came to be, even though this act made tea cheaper than before. The Sons of Liberty protested against the Tea Act by dumping 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. All in all, the enforcement of new taxes
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not independence but to keep English rights. Americans felt it was unconstitutional to be taxed without representation in the British parliament. Tensions escalated after the Boston tea party, custom agents were harassed, red coats began to be more frequent in the colonies, and other rights were being taken away like in Boston when the right to assemble was taken away. “Never did the British parliament, till the period above mentioned, think of imposing duties
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Intolerable Acts. These acts limit the freedom of colonists. The act was created as a result of the night of the Boston Tea Party. Colonists dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The Tea Act is unlawful, and it should not have been passed as a law by the British. The Intolerable Acts The first act passed on June 1, 1774 was called “The Boston Port Act”. This law closed the Boston Harbor to all trade. Boston’s economy is devastated. Everyone in the city has been punished. Secondly, the
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did not favor which would lead to riots like the Boston Massacre and eventually the American Revolution. But, what started it all was “taxation without representation”, as most colonists would put it. The colonists did not want to part from mother England. All they wanted was to be treated equally as the citizen that lived in England. But, England did not heed their cry and imposed more taxes. Taxes were imposed on everyday items such as stamps, tea, paper, glasses, etc., this was known as the revenue
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Michael Conger AMH 2010 http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/sons-of-liberty Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum Sons of Liberty This internet assignment that I will be writing will focus on the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created to protect the rights of the colonist and to fight taxation that was coming from the British. One of their biggest contributions was that they protested against the Stamp Act which was created to tax printed
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One of the reasons that the colonists decided to break from Great Britain was because they believed that they were not given certain political rights that every person should be given. Another reason that the colonists decided to break from Great Britain was because they felt that Parliament was denying them of basic economic rights such as putting restrictions on trade and imposing unfair taxes upon them. Finally, another main reason that the colonists decided to break from Great Britain was because
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The American Revolution started around 1673, after the French and Indian War. Republicanism and patriotism began to spread around the colonies, and the British began to enforce taxes and acts on the colonists, sparking a revolution. Though the Americans had smaller armies, less experience, and not as advanced weapons, they won. After the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the French and Indian War, Britain had to pay off large debts acquired during the war. George Grenville, the British Prime
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were considered “just” by British Parliament, it was seen in complete disgust by the colonists on which they were placed. This all led up to the Boston Tea Party, in which men disguised as Mohawk Indians, protested The Tea Act of 1773, requiring colonists to buy only British tea, but it was heftily taxed. Defiantly they boarded British ships and threw their tea overboard, making a point to Parliament that they would not stand for this tax. Angry with this they attempted to gain more control over Massachusetts
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In 1774, King George The Third, shut down the Boston harbor until all the taxes from the Boston Tea Party were payed for. The amount of tea was almost 1,000 pounds. This was one reason people began to revolt which caused the Lexington and Concord battle. On April 18th 1774, a man name Joseph Warren realized that the redcoats (British) were coming to travel through Concord. He sent Paul Revere and William Dawes out to warn other colonists of Concord that it might be too dangerous for them there because
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