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The French revolution started because the citizens wanted more freedoms and rights. The idea of the new government came from the Enlightenment philosophers. Locke was one of the many he rejected monarchy also he believed that government should be selected by and follow the will of the majority, which was a fundamental assertion of the Revolution. Montesquieu introduced the idea of separation of powers in government (from The Spirit of the Law). Where Montesquieu had understood freedom as being…

Introduction During the American Revolution and in the years leading up to the war, thousands of colonists in the royal colonies fought back against the injustice of Great Britain, this eventually led to the fight for independence. From the beginning of the war the colonists looked at the French for assistance and the French did secretly help the colonists by sending hundreds of thousands of guns, ammos, and clothing for the soldiers. Initially, the French didn’t want to intervene in the war…

American and wanting complete freedom from the British. Articles like the one in Document A created hate towards the British because of the treatment colonists had received, examples included are the Boston Massacre, The Quartering Act of 1765, the Stamp Act, the Sugar Act. The colonists were tired of being treated unfairly. This led to many mobs protesting, which eventually led to groups like the Sons of…

The United States has a lot of economic history dating back to the late 1700s. In the 1700s, the colonial economy was pre-industrial. The economy consisted of farming. The market economy was based on agricultural products. Now, the colonies did depend on Britain for many finished goods, mainly because laws prohibited making many types of finished goods in the colonies (). But American shippers were able to offset half of the goods trade deficit with revenues earned by shipping between ports…

There are a plethora of theories as to what exactly caused the American Revolution. Although it isn’t possible to narrow such a monumental act down to a single cause, two historians – Bernard Bailyn and Gary Nash - have argued their interpretations of historical data and documents based on a few primary sources. While Bailyn argues that it was personal and political creeds, along with political power-struggles, that caused the revolution, Nash’s theory that it was a combination of social…

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 repealed it. Then, the Stamp Act was passed in 1765 and this affected nearly all the colonists. The Stamp Act would have probably made a lot of money for the British but too many people disagreed with it and it ended up getting repealed as well. Afterwards, more acts were set and this time, they were not…

In 1215, The Magna Carta was brought up in a field in England known as Runnymede. The Magna Carta was a charter that was targeted against the deranged king of England at the time, King John. The Archbishop of Canterbury wrote up the charter to make peace between King John and barons who despised him. Dan Jones explains the history of King John and the Magna Carta in an article he had wrote for the Smithsonian. In his article, “The Mad King and Magna Carta,” the author Dan Jones begins with a…

westward trails. Sugar Act The Sugar Act was the first law that raised revenue for England and increased the sugar that was being imported from the West Indies. The colonists protested and eventually the dues were lowered calming them down. Stamp Act The Stamp Act was created to raise money to fund the new British military. The act required…

Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held in New York City on October 1765. This meeting consisted of representatives form some of the British Colonies. This gathering of elected colonial representatives was a protest against the new British taxation passed by Parliament. This taxation was the Stamp Act which required colonists to use only special stamped paper for all business in the colonies. The Stamp Act Congress met in October, but the Stamp…

manufacturers including Dougherty & New York Consolidated Card Co. took advantage of this rare opportunity to craft their own style of revenue tax stamp. SMART BUSINESS The universal feeling among manufacturers was that making their own stamp was clever advertising. Furthermore, the US government offered companies discounts on the tax if they opted to use their own stamp for their own proprietary articles. For the record, a company like Dougherty created these fanciful metal dies at their…