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Tango01 | 07 Mar 2020 10:45 p.m. PST |
…Common Sense "1763 marked the beginning of the long road to revolution for the American colonies. By 1775, military actions had finally erupted. How were the colonists and their leaders going to respond? By the summer of 1775, a loosely organized coalition of local militias had gone head to head with the most powerful imperial army in the world, and it looked like they were winning. How had protests over taxation taken things to this point? Trouble between the colonies and Great Britain had been brewing for more than a decade, since the end of the French and Indian War. After prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains, Parliament raised taxes on the colonies to pay off the war debt. Colonists balked at the Stamp Act as an example of taxation without representation. The Townshend duties were right on its heels, and the colonists responded with a boycott and harassment of customs officials…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Brechtel198 | 08 Mar 2020 4:55 a.m. PST |
The French and Indian War was the first time in the series of colonial wars with France that the British sent a significant army to fight the French. The British policy to the American colonies up to that time has been characterized as 'benign neglect.' The Americans were thankful of the military assistance and they actually needed it to win. The only problem was that the British war effort, which greatly benefitted the colonies drove the British government into debt. The British government believed that the colonies should pay their share of that debt. And that was a fair assumption. It was the manner in which the British implemented the payment of the national debt that alienated the colonies. The American colonists believed themselves to be Englishmen, but they were treated by the British government as second-class citizens and that was an underlying issue that fomented revolt. The British manner of 'explaining' that new policy was ham-handed and inexpert and it browned off the Americans and caused the problems that led to the American Revolution. The Revolution began in 1763 with the Proclamation of 1763 which forbade any colonial expansion beyond the Appalachians. The tax and enforcement acts followed and the rift between the colonies and the mother country widened because of it. The shooting started in 1775 and the War of the Revolution followed which ended with Britain losing her American colonies and losing the war. The American Revolution was not done, however. Problems with a national government, or a lack thereof, threatened to destroy what had been one and the Constitutional Convention which produced the US Constitution followed the years of chaos. The adoption and ratification by the states of the Constitution ended the American Revolution. |
Tango01 | 08 Mar 2020 2:59 p.m. PST |
Thanks Kevin. Amicalement Armand
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