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    Great Britain sent people over to what is now known as America, and those people started the thirteen colonies. While the thirteen colonies were controlled by the British, the Americans were unethically treated and didn’t have much say about what happened in parliament. This unfair treatment includes the taxation of Americans, there lack of representation in parliament, they also didn’t get to choose their role in wars. The Americans wanted self-government from the crown because they were…

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    independence they needed from the tyrants of Great Britain. The 13 colonies felt as though they were being overly oppressed by taxes, they didn’t have any representation and the Boston tea party (which caused even more taxes on the colonies and revved up the wars start).The most important cause of the American Revolution was the war between the French and Britain or the French and Indian war. The battle was expensive and it set the tide for why Great Britain where money hungry after the war. The…

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    It is believed that the Celtics were the first to inhibit Great Britain. They arrived in the country around 500 to 100 BC. The Greek navigator Pytheas was the first to mention the Island. He explored the coastline in 325 BCE. Great Britain was a very strong country, but like everyone else they had problems and events that helped structure the count. One event was the strife between Whigs and Tories it lasted from 1707-1721. Great Britain was under the rule of Queen Anne. The Tories supported…

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    When the Patriots revolted against our mother country’s rule, they were in the wrong. Great Britain had supported our small, disorganized colonies through all our hardships and was our dear mother country. Our past lives and roots are in British soil, and to disobey the place of our roots is to completely disregard everything the British did for us, like protect us during the French and Indian War. Great Britain has protected us from hardships in our new land and has supported our endeavors…

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    action because Parliament had passed the “Tea Act” which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, saving the company from bankruptcy. Although the tea remained less expensive, there was an added tax on which the colonists were not allowed to give their consent. Again, Parliament taxed the colonists without their representation and further worsened the American-British relations. News of the Boston Tea Party reached England in January 1774, and Parliament…

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    Eighteenth century was some of the worst times for the American Colonies due to the heavy taxations and excessive regulations imposed by the British parliament. Great Britain used the settlements as a source of income to aid in economic recovery after the Seven Years War. Since the late 1600s Great Britain and France have been at war, with most battles occurring overseas in Europe (Keene 87). The proximity of French and British colonies in the northern frontier, as well as the desire for land…

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    Independence, Parliament implemented a myriad of oppressive laws that sparked outrage from anti-British colonists. An example of one of these restrictive laws would be the Proclamation Line of 1763, which was issued by Great Britain to put a stop to future conflicts with Native Americans by forbidding English colonists from settling upon lands they had spilt blood to win from the French. In addition, the economic practice of mercantilism formed a parasitic relationship between Great Britain and…

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    French and Indian War, was a war between the French and the British over colonial land in the Americas. The British colonist helped Great Britain fight towards their victory. The war left Great Britain in a monstrous debt. Great Britain could not handle the amount of debt racked up by the war, so it was passed onto the colonists through taxes. Native people in Britain only thought it was fair for the colonists to have taxes because they were part of the British Empire. Some of the tax acts that…

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    Although Britain emerged victorious from the Seven Years’ War, in the years following, they suffered an imperial crisis. The imperial crisis was a political and intellectual conflict over the constitutional conflict between the thirteen American colonies and Great Britain. Britain was in debt from the war and wanted to use the colonies to help pay down that debt by enforcing various taxes and laws on the colonies. This paper will focus on the stamp act and the tea act which lead to resistance in…

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    Daniel Dulaney Analysis

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    After establishing this foundation for his argument, he asks “[w]hether the commons of Great Britain are virtually the representatives the commons of America or not.” This is the question he argues to. He explains that Stamp Act supporters admit that the colonies have no representation, but Britain says it’s alright because they are virtually represented, like that non-electors. Dulaney agrees that Britain has the right to preserve the dependence…

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