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American Revolution 2

The American Revolution was a conflict between the thirteen British colonies, and it's mother country, Great Britain. In late spring and early summer of seventeen seventy-six, after more than a year of fighting, the Second Continental Congress debated whether to declare independence or not. The reasons which impelled them to do so are outlined in the Declaration of Independence, and can be considered under the topics of parliamentary taxation, civil liberties, and British military measures. The French and Indian War changed the relationship between the colonies and their mother country. A decade of conflicts between the British government and the colonists, beginning with the Stamp ...

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the colonies for the crown. The Act taxed non-British imports of sugar and molasses and increased the duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies. Bitter protest by the colonies lowered the duties considerably, thus lowered their agitation. But once again, new resentments were born by the Stamp Act and Quartering Act of 1765. The Stamp Act was intended to generate revenues that would help pay for the cost of maintaining a permanent force of British troops in the American colonies. The colonist were required to buy and place stamps on all official documents, including deeds, mortgages, newspapers, and pamphlets in order to be deemed legal. Both taxes flourished resentment among the colonials. They believed the British government had no right to tax them without representation in the Parliament--- being the essential principle in their motto "no taxation, without representation". Subsequently, the colonist rioted and boycotted British goods, causing the Parliament ...

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