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The British strategy at first was to contain revolutionary sentiment in Massachusetts. They tried it and it didn’t work so they were coming up with another strategy. Then someone came up with a new one. They said for them to capture New York, where many loyalists lived, so they could use it as a base. The British launched another plan and it was designed to split the New England off from the rest of the colonies. their battle of Saratoga was a crucial turning Point. There was another British…

American Ideals Essay In 1763, the British control over the colonies after defeated the French in the North American. The British raised taxes to the colonists also limited trade, and the British order the colonist that the soldiers could stay in their house. The colonies doesn’t want rules by the British King because their actions violated the rights. In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote a document about the Declaration of Independence. Americans have lived up to the ideals expressed in the…

Before the American Revolution really kicked off, all the colonists from different social classes had to become angry. This soon happened as the majority of the people, including the middle class, became increasingly displeased about the mounting taxation, giving rise to the popular phrase, “no taxation without representation,” coined by Jonathan Mayhew. Mayhew was a minister in Boston, Massachusetts, who like Washington and many other notable figures, greatly opposed the Stamp Act. In a fashion…

The American Revolution resulted from rising tensions between the mother country, Britain, and the restless thirteen colonies. Through the twentieth century, colonial historians debated the magnitude of the causes leading to the American Revolution, historian T. H. Breen challenges in his writing the preconceived notion that Britain was static and constant. He argues that the active role Britain plays actually sparked the revolution, inferring that the term “American Revolution” is actually a…

The American Revolutionary War of 1775 also known as The War for America in Chapter 7 of “The American Promise” was a war between England and settlers of the thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. The war was the result of the political American Revolution which was triggered by the prosperous goods and natural resources of the territories. In 1775 the colonists overthrew British rule by seizing control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, which obviously wasn’t…

Liberty as a response to the passage of the Stamp Act. Vividly describing the causes and effects of Boston Massacre as well as a passage of the Tea Act, the author introduced the course changing event in American history, the act of raging rebels throwing all tea chests from the British ships into the sea as a sign of opposition, known as the Boston Tea Party. Furthermore, the inhabitants of colonies agreed on a boycott of all British goods, and the war started. Not having an intention to…

legislature passes the new law called the Tea Act. The law granted a British company the monopoly on the tea trade of America, so the company launched delivering tea to American colonies free from England taxes. The American settlers were furious because other tea dealers still must pay taxes to England. American people flatly refused to buy any tea and rejected to unload the goods from the British ships. So in the end, some Sons of Liberty members dumped a tea overboard in the Boston Harbor.…

In the beginning, the American Revolution was only a rebellion by British colonists, however, it quickly turned into something much more. The road to the Revolution started with a nine-year war between the French and the British over land in the Ohio River Valley, and ended with the battles in Lexington and Concord between the minutemen and militia. The road to the American Revolution was paved by the French and Indian War, all the acts passed by England, the events in Boston, and the Battles in…

occurring between the years of 1763 and 1775. Within these years English colonists were aggravated from the tax and trade laws that were put into place. The series of major conflicts between England and English colonies consist of the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts and everything in between. The English colonists were upset with the way they were being treated along with all of the taxes that came along with acts passed by the British Parliament, which exploded at one moment…

military and the colonialists. Many would say that this was propaganda to promote opposition against the British rule. The Boston Tea Party was also a very significant even that led to the revolution against the British rule. On December 16, 1773, 150 American revolutionaries boarded the British naval ship and dumped out tea into the Boston harbor in response the new tea tax that was imposed. This was very…