The British enforced the 1765 Stamp Act on March 22, 1765. They did this because they were hoping to raise enough funds to defend the big new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War. It said they were forced to pay a tax on every single piece of printed material such as newspapers, magazines, legal documents, playing cards, diplomas, and legal documents. It was called the Stamp Act because the colonies were supposed to buy paper from Britain that had an official stamp on
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The American Revolution occurred due to many factors from 1763 to 1775 that caused American Colonists to develop a stronger sense of autonomy and self-government from the British Empire. After the French and Indian War in 1763, the British Empire had imposed higher and more strict mercantilist imperial controls and taxes on the American Colonists. The American Colonists, however, heavily resisted the imperialistic control from the British and soon saw British troops march in Lexington and Concord
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What was the most remarkable summer in American history? In his book “Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence”, Joseph J. Ellis writes, what may be, the winning answer. Ellis tells the story of summer1776, when the colonies declared their independence and some of our countries most significant figures emerged. “Revolutionary Summer” takes place from about May1776 to October 1776, when the most momentous events took place that started our country’s founding. He expands on key people
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Stamp Act which remained unresolved until the Revolutionary War and the independence of the United States. Most colonists continued to accept British rule until Parliament’s enactment of the Tea Act in 1773 (Schultz, K., n.d.). This was a bill designed to save the British East India Company by lowering its tea tax. The colonists were not always interested in revolution. Therefore, the British Parliament revoked the Stamp Act but at the same time passed the Declaratory Act affirming its right to pass
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In 1776 both Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, wrote documents that would later help influence America in uniting the Colonies, Government, and Economy. Although Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence might have some differences. Both documents revolve around the ideas of: Economy, Push for stable Government, and the Uniting the people (agents Great Britain). In the Declaration of Independence Jefferson makes multiple points as to why Americans should united together agensted Great Britan
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The American dream is the every United States citizen should have the opportunity to be successful and to achieve prosperity through adamantine work, determination, and initiative. In the Wordle, the three words that stood out to me were the following: Diversity Education Rights These words stood out to me because of the meaning behind each word and how it affects the vision of the American dream. Diversity means everything is different and that there is a mix or a variety. Diversity was never an
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The Coercive Acts, referred to in America as the Intolerable Acts, were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as discipline for the decimation fashioned amid the Boston Tea Party, a fierce response to the British tea duty of 1773. There was a progression of occasions that hinted at this minute. By 1774, the connection between Great Britain and the American provinces had turned out to be to a great degree tense. In 1763, the French and Indian War had finished, with England triumphant over its
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freedom from the British. These acts were laws put in place to punish Massachusetts for resistance and the Boston Tea Party. One of the Intolerable Acts was the Boston Port Act. This act was to discontinue the shipping of goods, wares and merchandise with the Port of Boston. It became a law on March 31, 1774. It was an act King George III put in place as a response to the Boston Tea Party. The Port was one of the main sources of supplies for Massachusetts. Other colonies sent supplies over as a
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As tensions between the New England colonists and the British rumors of violent protests spread rampant. As the tension increased the Boston massacre occurred, becoming one of the many catalysts that started the American Revolution. As a result of the French and Indian war, the British economy began to decline. In an attempt to remedy this economic downfall, the English parliament implemented the stamp tax laws onto the American colonies. This tax was short lived; however, in its place came the
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refused to consume any British imports due to their boycott, but the ship owner insisted. The colonists however took this opportunity to take action. A gathering of colonists dressed up as the indigenous people of the land, dumped the tea into the harbor, and terrorized the ship owner. In response to these events, delegates from the colonies such as, George Washington and Patrick Henry from Virginia, Samuel Adams from Massachusetts, and John Jay of New York met in Philadelphia in 1774
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