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also got a lot of money so they had all of these American products be shipped exclusively to England (the Navigation Acts). In an attempt to raise revenue as well as interfere with the French in the Caribbean, a tax on each gallon of molasses was imposed in 1733. The enforcement of these regulations became hard to keep up with, so the English government established a well worked customs services, and courts empowered to identify and convict suspected smugglers.
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7-Years War
The French and Indian War, or the Seven-Years War, was the start of open hostilities that on between the current colonies and Great Britain. France and England had been working towards a conflict in America since around 1689. Those efforts resulted in the vast growth of the colonies from approximately 250,000 people in 1700, to approximately 1.25 million in 1750. Britain got raw materials including copper, hemp, tar, and turpentine. They also got a lot of money so they had all of these American -
The Proclamation of 1763 (http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm)
colonists to the eats coast so that they'd be easier to control. The proclamation also sought to organize the colonies and all of the terratories.
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The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was right after the Seven-Years War. It was issued by the English. Part of it closed down the idea of west-ward expansion to soothe the thoughts of the Natives who thought that the colonists were going to kick them out of their land in order to move west. This caused some colonists to resent the government because they thought they deserved to explore west-ward. Ideas we flung around that England wanted to pin the colonists to the east coast so that they'd be easier to -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required a tax on certain printed matrials in the colonies. After already being aggrevatted by the Sugar Act, the colonists were further upset with this act. Initially the colonist protested the act and got some of it recinded. England still insisted it's right to tax the colonies. "No taxation without representation" was a famous quote that orginated from this act. This act was just another brick in the wall that was the American Revolution. -
Sugar Act (http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm)
The Sugar Act was a revised version of the Molasses Act which were about to expire. It taxed the coloines half as much as the aforementioned act, but was regulated and enforced stricter. By doing this England started making the colonists wonder what the actual intent was of the act. Was is to create revenue or just to tax the colonies as punishment? Whatever it was it angered the colonists and contributed to what would eventually become the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act Congress (http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm)
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Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, which consisted of representatives from some of the colonies in America. It was the first gathering of officially elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxes. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for virtually all business in the colonies, and was coming into effect November 1. -
The Boston Massacre (http://www.bostonmassacre.net/)
The Boston Massacre started out as a group of colonists throwing sticks, stones and snowballs at a group of British Soldiers. Multiple colonists were open fired on by the group of soldiers and killed. This prompted writters to campaign and get the colonists support to fight back. The presence of the British troops was increasingly unwanted in Boston especially after the shootings. Evenually the British troops left Boston. This event is thought as an extremely significant reason of the Revolution -
The Boston Tea Party http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm
Political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an important event of American history, and other political protests refferance it. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to English colonies in America. The acts sparked outrage of mass appeal in the Thirteen Colonies, and were an important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. Some were issued in response to the Boston Tea Party. England wanted to make an example of Boston, but just angered the colonists more and made the Revolution an ever present idea in the minds of some colonists. -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. The main goals of the meeting weren't entirely clear but, with leadership that was found there, a set of tasks was carried out. It was known to all that the King and Parliament must all of the understand the grievances of the colonies and that the congress must do everything they were able to to communicate the same to the population of America, and to the rest of the world. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775. The shot heard round the world, as said by Ralph Waldo Emerson, started it all. The importance of these battles are crucial to the core of Americas independance from England. With minutemen and militia fighting the first real American Spirit was shown. The victory gave belief to the colonists fighting that they could fight and keep up with the red coats. -
Common Sense (http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/)
With a title like that you would expect something easy to read, but that is entirely not what Common Sense is. A genius of his time, Thomas Paine, wrote aboutthe natural liberty that every human should be garunteed. His book challenged English monoarchy and their authority that they held over their subjects. His book and his ideas were extremely crucial to the Founding Fathers. Even today his ideas are strongly believed in every democracy. Common Sense was the number one circulated book then. -
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Virginia Declaration of Rights was a declaration drafted in 1776 to state the inherent rights of men, including the right to rebel against an "inadequate" government. It went on to influenc a bunch of later documents including the Declaration of Independance. It was agreed on by all of Virginia. It is specualted that Thomas Jefferson heavily looked at the Declaration for his own Declaration of Independance. -
Everyone Knows This One!
The Declaration of Idependance. 125 words is hardly needed to desrcibe the importance of this document and what it is to America. The Founding Fathers cheif contribution to not just the United States of America, but to the entire world of democracy. It is one of the greatest documents in world history. Even to this day we swear by it and still do not fully understand and agree on what it says. Despite that it is what it is, and that is pure greatness. -
The Articles of Confederation (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html)
The Articles of Confederation was the first recognized document in America and the first that defined the American government. It identified the thirteen colonies as soveriegn states and made them legally known. Although they did not last they were crucial to the devolopment of the United States. The Articles of Confederation led to the Constitiion of the United States. I suppose you could think of it as a really good rough draft. It lacked backing though because of it's lacking. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War between the British and the colonists. So mad was King George to lose that he didn't attend the treaty. It awknowledged that America was free and soveriegn, the boundries of America, and that soldiers on either side we released unharmed. This treaty is what the coloists had been working towards the entire war. It is said that the treaty was very generous to America, specificaly the boundries. -
The Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is and defines what America is and what America stands for. It is the supreme law of the land. It establishes the type of government we have here in America. It contains the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments. Along with the Declaration, they are the two pieces of paper that will always be remembered in the history of the United States of America.
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