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The war caused the British Parliment to see the need to tax the British colonies in America.   Unfortunetly, Parliment thought they had the right to do it without the consent of the American colonist.

He had his emisscaries encourage Indian tribes to attack frontier homesteads.

The colonists were conscripted into the navy to bear arms against America, if they refused they were exacuted.

According to the Declaration of Independence, he did transport mercenaries to the colonies.

The United States of America

Article 8 which stated that expenditures of the United States would be paid by funds raised by the state legislatures and approtioned to the states according to real property values. This article caused so many problems because states would simply keep the money not give it to the Congress.

The people have the right to abolish the laws and to institute a new Gorvernment to ensure their future.

He had them dissolved for opposing his new laws and rulings.

The right of Repersentation which made him into a tyrant.

He raised the requirements for approperating land and refused to pass laws that would encourage migration.

He refused to agree to Laws that would establish Judiciary Powers in the colonies.

King George III made them dependent on him alone for their tenure and salaries.

The army was present without their consent of their legislatures during a time of peace. The army was quartered by the colonists and the army was made independent and superior to civil law. The soldiers were also being protected with mock trials from prosecution of murder.

The colonist were able to build fortifications in one night on Dorchester Heights. General Howe was amazed at all the work they had done in just one night.

They were Continental soldiers or militialmen. They were called minutemen because they were expected to be ready to fight on a minutes notice.

Mother Country

1764

Yes, he did both actions.

1783

Everyone else was given freedom to move among the states except, "paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice."

Each state was given one vote and states could elect between one to seven delegates in their state legislatures to repersent them in the Congress.

The central government could only conduct foreign political or commercial relations or declare war?

Each State was required to keep a well trained and equipped militia with a public store of tents, arms, and ammunition and camp equipment for the men to draw from when needed.

Quebec would be allowed to join the American states if they decided to succeeded  from Great Britian.

The act reduced the taxes on the East Indian Trading company when they imported to to England. This allowed them to import tea to the coloniest cheaply. Reducing the price of the tea for the colonist.

Men who were statesmen and politicians who partisipated in the American Revolution by signing the Declaration of Independence and partisipating  the American Revolution war.

are legal, ethical, and social principles of entitlement or freedom that are allowed to people according to some legal system, ethical theory, or social convention.

charge or other levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law. Taxes are also imposed by many administrative divisions. Taxes consist of direct or indirect taxes and may be paid in money or as its labour equivalent.

is the codition of a state, county or nation in which its population exerises some form of self-government and soverienty over the territory.

They were denined Trial by Jury and in some cases sent over seas to be tried for false offences.

one's ability to influence the political process.

People who are native or citizens of United States of America.

He refused Assent Laws so that Judiciary Powers could not be established, Standing army in time of pease that was independent and supperior to Civil Law, protecting the ary with mock trials, refusing to allow Governors to pass laws that would benifit the colonist, having legistatures convene far from the colonies, dissolving Repersentive Houses, denying Americans trial by jury or transporting them over the sea for pretend offences, cutting off trade to the Americas, taxing Americans without consent, establishing an Arbitary government to harm the colonies, taking away charters, declaring war and demolishing towns and seaports, constrained fellow citizens to bear arms against their own contry, and he insighted domestic insurrection among the colonies.

No president, no national courts, no way to fund the national government because the government could not tax peolpe, unable to protect manufacturing and shipping, unable to insure that the individual states would agree to treaties, unable to protect frontier population, and unable to gain navigation laws so ports acted on their own acord(for example, some were open to British trade and some were not)

Paper
Lead
Paint
Tea

They would make their own cloth and dye it, and they collected plants to make their own tea.  They would even use scraps of material to make blankets.

Paul Revere

The Boston Tea Party

500 hundred British soldiers were met in Lexington by 70 minutemen. British soldiers shot dead 10 militamen.

The minutemen thought that the British soldiers had started to burn houses down in Concord.

Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania state house.

John Hancock

John Adams

June 14, 1775

Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold

British Evaculated Boston on March 1776, because of the superior  weapons the colonist transported to Boston from Fort Ticonderoga.

Patriots built walls on Breed’s Hill
British forces landed and advanced towards Breed’s Hill
British attacked three times to take hills
British lost  a thousand men Americans 500

Thomas Paine

Trade practices were hurting the colonists, England was 3,000 miles away, and the colonist had the right to govern themselves

British warship retalilated against the town and burned it down.

June 1776 American forces in Canada were forced to retreat in total disorder with smallpox, dysentery, and malaria.

John Adams of MA
Thomas Jefferson of VA
Roger Sherman of CN
Robert Livingston of NY
Benjamin Franklin of PA

Military Rule
Town meetings cancelled
Local officials taken out and  appointed by military put in
Americans accused of certain crimes shipped to England for trial
The Boston harbor would be closed until England was reimbursed for the tea

Virginia House of Burgesses
Committees of Correspondence
September 5, 1774 meet at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia
55 delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies
Continental Association petition English Parliament to repeal sections apposed against Boston

Toris/ Loyalist- men and women who wanted to remain loyal to King George III.

Patriots/Whigs- radicals who wanted to break from Britian and become a new nation

He was an advit supportor of the colonist breaking from Britian.

-March 5, 1770
-4 hundred colonist haressing
-8 British Soldiers
-  the soldiers were guarding theCustom House
- the colonist were throwing insults, rocks, oyster shells, and ice
- John Adams repersented the soldiers

Midnigt Ride to Lexington and Concord.

Passed in 1764 by Parliament
Had to be purchased and affix to documents
Newspapers, marriage licenses, contracts, diplomas, calendars, advertisements, and playing cards
1767 Indemnity Act.

He is k now for his famous quote " Taxation without repersentation is tyranny."

He was a multi talented man who was a diplomate, news paper owner, even Royal Post Master General.  He was appointed to the committee that was responsible for he drafting the Declaration of Independence.

December 16,1773
Dartmouth, Beaver, and Eleanor entered Griffin’s Wharf
342 chests of tea combined
Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians throw the tea into the harbor
What role did the East Indian Trading Company play?