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This chapter focused on the historical founding of the constitution. The first founding was initially shaped by political conflicts between the British settlers and Great Britain. Among the British settlers were five different social classes; the New England merchants, the southern planters, royalists, shopkeepers, artisans, and laborers, and small farmers. The conflict over taxation trade and commerce between these groups later brought them together to form a colonial resistance against Great…

the colonists to boycott British goods. And even though colonists boycott came through, the British still needed to find a get more money which brought the Townshend Act upon the colonist. After that came Intolerable Act because of the failure of the Tea Act, the British were forced to show their worst These events made an impacts…

Civil disobedience is the practice of challenging the government through dissent. The disobedients strive to resolve the the moral, ethical or political issue that is cause for disobedience through acts break the status quo and sometimes the law. Civil disobedience is meant to effect change in the government, it is meant to do what the founding fathers did by creating a new country out of the ashes of their greatest act of civil disobedience, the Revolutionary War. However, civil disobedience in…

probably the one who planned the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is where a group of colonists dressed as American Indians at night board the ship and threw all the tea overboard. Another cause of the American revolution war the Intolerable Act. The Intolerable act is where the king imposed new laws as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party. There was the closing of the port of Boston until the Dutch East India Company had cleaned and repair the for the destroy tea. And then there was the…

Intolerable act. During the Intolerable act, the British’ Parliament had a term that the American Patriot’s had a series of punitive laws that was passed against the Americans. The colonists revolted by throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston harbor, creating the Boston Tea Party, they thrown about…

England’s debt nearly doubled after the French Indian War. The English had to figure out ways to raise revenue in order to remain as a world superpower. England knew that the colonies were making money and demanded that the colonist pay duties for doubling in size and seizing massive control over valuable resources. In addition, England passed numerous Acts to gain money from the colonist. At first, Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765; however, this act was later repealed due to the…

The Townshend Acts required a tax on imported goods received by the colonies. This included glass, lead, paint, paper, and what made everyone horrified, tea. Colonials felt that they were being taken advantage of and certainty let the King know. All the taxes from the Townshend Acts, excluding tea, were repealed in 1770. A protest against this took place in Massachusetts where boycotting protesters were harassing the British agents stationed in Boston. It turned from arguing…

The American Revolution was economic in nature because taxes triggered of the revolts and ultimately the start of the war. The Stamp and Tea Act were the main cause of the problems. Although the colonist didn 't have any representation in parliament, the political oppression started to begin the war. The Taxes that Great Britain enforced on the United States were clearly a problem of an economic struggle. The Stamp Act was a tax that put a tax on paper products like newspapers, stamps,…

legislation had the authority to tax them. Because of the Boston Tea Party, which was where the British dumped out tea as a way of protesting in Boston, the British government became furious at the colonists. The colonial leaders wanted to defend their self government and liberty. The British government launched the Intolerable Acts, punishment laws passed in 1774. These acts were meant to punish the colonists for their defiance and throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. Some of the…

The french and indian war, fought between Britain and France during the years 1754-1763, was a response to debate over the Ohio River Valley between the two countries, won by the British in 1763. The effects of the war, rather than improve relations between the colonies and their mother country, worsened them. The conclusion of the french and indian war strained british and colonial relations due to issues of land acquisition such as the proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec act, political changes…