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King George's War was the third in a series of Anglo-French colonial conflicts in North America. Although nominally at peace, Britain and France had been in conflict over colonial boundaries in Acadia, northern New England, and the Ohio Valley. King George’s War had been preceded by an outbreak of fighting in Europe. The death of Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor, had touched off a succession crisis that pitted France, Prussia and Spain against the British. Warfare developed in the American…

The Shaping of New England’s Society In the 1600’s England experienced a great deal of religious, political, and economic turmoil. After the Bubonic Plague era England experienced fast growth in its population. The harsh treatment by aristocratic land owners caused the poorer gentry to move to the urban areas of the country which resulted in overcrowding. King Charles, ruler at the time, decided to dismantle his Parliament and rule without them. King Charles actions lead to political instability…

“Taxation without representation is tyranny!!” The original phrase was “No taxation without representation”. James Otis, lawyer in colonial Mass. , thought that the phrase was not quite right, therefore changed it to “Taxation without representation is tyranny!” The British parliament decided to tax sugar in the colonies in the sugar act. James Otis ,with other colonists, did not agree with the sugar act and started protesting against it. The stamp act had come up partially directly after…

history. The Stamp Act, Sons of Liberty and Boston Tea Party are three significant parts of the war. The Stamp Act and Boston Tea Party are both related to the Sons of Liberty. Read more to find out how they are all related. The Tea Act is an act that was put in place by the british on the colonists tea. Parliament passed this on May 10, 1773. The british put in this new tax to help them pay for the war. This upset many people because tea was a very popular drink that was never taxed…

Stamp Act. It was created in May 10, 1773. It was created to help save the British East India Company and to save the British economy. The Tea Act gave the British East India Company nearly total control of the market for tea and removed some taxes on tea, making colonist less expensive for the colonist. The colonist didn't want to pay ay taxes and be told what tea they…

Paul Revere Paul Revere was not a unique hero before the battle of Lexington. On April 18 and 19 1775 Paul Revere took his famous Midnight Ride. One of the resources we used was the Longfellow poem that tells the story of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. In the Longfellow poem there were things that Paul Revere did that night. There was the signal when the british came 1 by land and 2 by sea. The midnight ride of Paul Revere was taken place in Boston and all the towns that were mentioned…

civilians died, the Boston Massacre fueled “the colonial public to the Patriot cause.” Following the backlash against the Boston Massacre was the Tea Act (1773); this act again did not benefit the colonists, Britain was looking out for themselves and the struggling East Indian Company. Boston was left to take action for themselves, this lead to the Boston Tea Party, after Boston’s revolt “Parliament responded with a series of harsh measures intended to stifle colonial resistance to the British…

commercial pressure on the Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act (Was the American Revolution Inevitable, 2011). Finally, the relationship between the colonies and England began to deteriorate and in December 1773, the famous Boston Tea Party protestors destroyed 10,000 worth of tea in which Massachusetts was placed under military rule in 1774 because of the violence (Was the American Revolution Inevitable,…

Settlers in the American backcountry often protested to express the grievances with the Federal Government and the regulations and policies they set in place. Taxes of goods and crops were the root for the Whiskey and Shay Rebellions. The Shay Rebellion raised awareness for the need of s a stronger central government. Referring to the Shay Rebellion, historian Leonard L. Richards quotes, "fundamentally altering the course of U.S. history." Farmers in Massachusetts in 1786 were fed up with the…

Great Britain's initial attempt at controlling the colonists was the Proclamation of 1763, one of the results of the Seven Years’ War, which is also as the French and Indian War. This particular war was fought between Britain and France when disputes arose over French expansion into the Ohio River Valley in 1756; at the end of the war, the British received territories from France and Spain that therefore launched their expansion westward. Clearly, the British wanted to control westward expansion…