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    Colonial Resistance

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    was a lot curvier than many thought. In the beginning of the thirteen colonies history the American colonists were loyal to the king and parliament. But as political and economic ideas started to change the colonies moved from British loyalty to resistance to rebellion to revolution. Rebellion and Revolution weren’t the most ideal ways of dealing with Britain, but it needed to be done. In a matter of thirteen years the original thirteen American colonies went from being loyal to completely…

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    like he needed, whilst half of France was starving to death). This was why the people of France wanted to escape from his rule. This eventually caused an uprising, The revolution was kickstarted on the 14th July 1789 (now remembered as Bastille day) on this day the Bastille was stormed and the the revolution began. During the American revolution, America was controlled by Great Britain (King George III), in the beginning the American colonists were proud to be British until the French and Indian…

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    When America succeeded from Britain the states became an independent country. Independence does not come naturally and sometimes it has to be worked for. The United States military works for the country’s independence every day, fighting to keep the country as independent as it is today. The Statue of Liberty represents the country's independence and freedom. This statue was a gift from France on October 28, 1886. She holds torch and tablet which holds the date of the declaration…

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    No Justice, no liberty, and no freedom were to be seen in the thirteen colonies of early America as the British ruled over all men and women without question. The Revolutionary War, also known as the American Revolution, emerged from growing tensions between citizens of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Multiple battles broke out between the British and the Americans. Three of the main battles were the Battles at…

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    The Tea Party

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    The thirteen colonies formed Provincial Congresses that replaced the old colonies government this died down loyalism. Provincial congress which are extra legislative branches in some of the 13 colonies; later these were renamed as states. The Continental Army…

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    Declaration of Independence and Enlightenment “No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience” (Locke) .The Declaration of Independence is a document written by Thomas Jefferson over the course of many days, and signed on July 4th, 1776, stating that the thirteen American colonies are no longer part of the British Empire. The Enlightenment and Declaration of Independence were heavily influenced by each other. The Enlightenment was an era from the 1620s to 1780s, when people started to…

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    Stamp Act Dbq

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    On April 19, 1775, from an unknown origin along the open plains of Lexington, Massachusetts Bay, a musket shot sailed through the open air between where an American militia and a British troop regiment were currently standing off. In its wake, an uncoordinated British retaliation left several militiamen dead. The end of salutary neglect had brought an increasingly tighter grip on the colonists of the still-budding British America, from the restrictive trading policies placed by the Sugar Act to…

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    a big bank called simply the Bank of France. She was raised in an era of revolution. When Sophie was born the American Revolution was going on. The American Revolution was uproar between the colonist of the thirteen colonies rejecting British monarchy and aristocracy. When Sophie was thirteen years old the start of the French Revolution occurred in her country. The French Revolution was overthrowing the monarchy, due to government being in so much debt and unable to restore taxes. Since she was…

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    persons agree the beginning of the United States history started when Jamestown was well-stablished, the thirteen colonies were settled, when Christopher Columbus discovered America or even after the declaration of independence. But the question here is what the reality is? Who is right? U.S history for me start even before this events, for me start when Native Americans migrated, to know a days is United States. Although the truth reality here is the United States History does not begin in…

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    beginning of the new self- governed America. British began to put taxes on needed items such as stamps, tea, sugar and newspaper. This is how the American Revolution started when the king of Britain sent colonist over to the world to settle in the first thirteen colonies. The result it caused outrage that began the rebellion of the Americas against the British. This created the all American slogan, which was called no taxation without representation. For example the first significant event that…

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