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    Stamp Act Dbq

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    created by England’s parliament, was an act that taxed colonies on newspapers, pamphlets, licenses, and other paper products. The stamp was created to bear revenue stamps but the stamp created anger among many of the colonists. Colonists were justified in their refusal to accept the Stamp Act because the government taxed colonists without the correct representation. The Stamp Act was highly disliked because the English parliament taxed the colonies without the correct representation. The…

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    list of grievances against the king and government. The grievances that the colonies had and the events that took place over this decade led to the American Revolution against Britain. These grievances included those accusing the king of being ineffective and wrongful, those describing the mistreatment of the colonists, and those explaining the anger and wants of the colonists. The people living in the British colonies grew tired and angry of the unjust an ineffective king of England. As…

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    the colonies turning the once loyal British subjects into disorderly revolutionaries. The large British Empire ruled over a vast number of colonies making it difficult for the British government to enforce laws in every single one. In the 150 years before its colonies in North America, the British had maintained the unofficial policy of salutary neglect in which the British government turned a blind eye letting the colonies essentially run themselves. This policy of disregarding the colonies led…

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    the restrictions placed on the colonies. The colonists revolted because of the different social, economic, and political restrictions that were put in place while they were controlled by the British. Britain's greatest debt from the several wars that they fought in affected the colonies since they were the ones who had to pay for the service of protection the British gave. The intolerable acts were apart of a series of acts that have been prompted on the colonies and was the last ticking points…

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    changed the geopolitical state of the world. The world would not be rocked the same until the Napoleonic wars several decades later. Many of the colonists views towards their home country changed such as its role in governing, protecting and taxing the colonies however many policies stayed the same such as colonial assemblies and their treatment of native americans. The war caused many changes in Great Britain. The British were stuck with a fiscal crisis due to the large cost of funding a war on…

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    Thirteen original colonies that colonized in North America set the standards for what is to be expected of North America. Of the thirteen colonies that settled in America, each one was founded for its own purpose; New Jersey for farming and trade, Rhode Island for separation of church and state, and Virginia for its quest of gold. Virginia became the first successful colony to colonize in America, founded by John Smith in 1607. On the quest for riches and gold, colonists spent most of their time…

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    On July 4th, the American colonies declared the independent of the Unite States, it was the result of the war between the American colonies and the Britain. A lot of people might have heard about the Boston Tea Party, a bunch of Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, but many do not know how important it was. In fact, the Boston Tea Party was the trigger of the American Independent War. In the year of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which were laws that put taxes on…

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    developed an identity of American citizens. In each document we see a large quantity of colonists sharing the same patriotic views as the author of the document. The Boston colony was full of patriots who were ready to fight for their freedom and who were willing to die if it meant freedom for future generations of Americans. Each colony grew in unity due to the new sense of patriotism that was spreading. Resentment for British authority is also wide spread in Boston due to the Quartering Act of…

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    to raise taxes in their own country based what happened during the cider riots of 1763. When the British Parliament tried to pass tax acts in Great Britain, citizens grew hostile and the acts were unsuccessful. Instead, the British turned to the colonies, placing multiple tax acts on them to help pay for the war. At first, these taxes that were implemented were not too serious because items like sugar were not widely used by the colonists. However, they still protested against it and the King…

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    Sir Walter Raleigh Dbq

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    ventured to the new world, for England, in 1584. Before he set sail, Raleigh received a charter, which is an official document written by Queen Elizabeth, that tells Raleigh and the people accompanying him to the new world essentially what to do in the colony. The author’s point of view is third person. The document was written in England by Queen Elizabeth, and the audience was Sir Walter Raleigh and the other colonist going on the voyage with him. This affects the reliability because it is an…

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