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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