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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The Road of Rebellion and the Revolution

For many years, the American colonies had been give relative self-autonomy as a result of Britain being too busy with its own issues, and whence practicing Salutary brush aside. During this time, Britain imposed several(prenominal) acts on the colonies to gain a profit off them, standardized the Navigation Act, which encouraged colonies to dismiss raw somatics to England and then deal processed goods from Britain at an sumptuous price. Later, more acts were endue in clothe that disallowed the colonies from producing specific material goods like hats, and forcing them to buy these items from Britain. However, the colonists took prefer of the loopholes in these acts, and were fairly un both(prenominal)ered by them. The policy of Salutary Neglect and the reverberations of the Glorious Rebellion had both heavily weakened Britains magnetize on its North American colonies, and the colonists took the opportunity to push for self-government. Britain responded to these nationalist actions by vowing to reassert their motive in the late 1940s, which started the lout rolling that eventually guide to the Revolutionary War.\nBritain began to place restrictions and taxes on different aspects of colonial connection to make up for the vast debt they were racking up collectable to the wars they were engaging in. The colonists and Britain fought unneurotic in the the French and Indian War, and they together forced France to give up its territories in todays Canada and northern coupled States. However, after the war Britain issued the promulgation of 1763, which angered the colonists greatly. Instead of recognise them for helping in the success, Britain restrict the westward expansion of the colonies to association aside land for the inbred Americans, and placed restrictions on skin trade, among other things. After the Molasses Act, which put a tax on any molasses bought by the colonies from anyplace other than Britain, was largely ignored, sevens put in place the Sugar Act in 1764, which was a tax on sugar. Anoth...

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