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The Navigation Acts only allowed English ships to carry goods to England, and the colonies of North America could only export their commodities. This act caused anger to many colonists and even made them smuggle.
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The French-Indian War was between Great Britain and France. Great Britain and France fought over who was going to have strong power in North America. France had the colonist and the Indian allies on their side when the fought the British.
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American colonists were taxed and required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used like commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, licenses for marriage, diplomas, pamphlets, and playing cards.
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This act required the colonies to provide shelter, food, transportation to the British forces. The colonists didn't want to provide for the British force because they didn't trust them.
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The British parliament passed a number of laws covering the American colonies. They levied new taxes and stripped away some of the colonists' privileges, including the following: new taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass and tea imports.
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It all started when a mob attacked a British loyalist. The British loyalist then shot and murdered a boy. After that a riot occured.
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Incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown by American patriots posing as Mohawk Indians from ships into Boston Harbor. The American patriots did this because they were angry at the fact that they were imposing “taxation without representation”.
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The British Parliament passed 5 punitive laws. In response to reforms in taxation by the British Government, the laws were intended to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of the Tea Party protest. The laws were Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act,Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act.
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British troops were heading to Concord, Massachusetts to steal military supplies but Paul Revere and William Dawes warned Adams and Hancock to get the Minutemen ready to fight.
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It took on a government's regular roles, naming ambassadors, issuing paper money, raising the Continental Army by conscription, and appointing army leadership generals.
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The colonists' last effort to avoid going to war during the American Revolution with Britain. It was a document that assured the colonists their allegiance to the crown and claimed their privileges as British citizens.
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Thomas Paine's pamphlet was an advocate to gain independence from England and to create a democratic republic.
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Their objectives were to mobilize the forces, gain foreign allies, and declare the formation of a new country. The D.O.I also said that people had the right to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. All men were created equally and that people had the right to defend their rights were also in the D.O.I.
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The object of the Articles of Confederation was to plan and establish a confederation-some kind of government-the framework of the new government. Unfortunately there were many issues with the Articles of Confederation.
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Under the Articles of Confederation, it revealed the weakness of the government and prompted many, including George Washington, to call for strengthening the federal government to put down potential uprisings.
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The point of the event was to determine how America would be governed. Although the Convention was officially called to amend the current Confederation Articles. They addressed the problems with the Articles of Confederation.
