The Sons of Liberty were an important organization in the American Revolution. ... The events that led to the Boston Tea Party took place after Britain won the French and Indian War in 1763. There were many taxes imposed on the colonists in the following years to pay for England's war debt. ... They organized the Boston Tea Party which was a key event for the Revolutionary War. ... The Boston Tea Party was an important step towards independence from Great Britain....

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Boston was the home to many important events and groups such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Son's of Liberty ,the Committees of Correspondence, and the motivating factor of the Intolerable Acts. "Boston was an important factor in the war and a platform for revolutionary ideas." (Merewood, pg. 1) In fact, basically the entire Revolutionary War can be traced through the events that took place in Boston. ... Most importantly, Boston was a merchant's town. ... More importantly, the Boston Tea Party was the starting block of the American Revolutionary War. ...

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In the aftermath of the French and Indian War, the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies had been severed. With an immense influx of war spending in order to fight off the French in the New World, the British were forced to place some of that burden on the colonists who, in their mind, initiated the war in the first place. ... The most important legal implementations which spurred colonial dissent were the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Coercive Acts. ... Another, more popular, example of nonviolent protest is the Boston Tea Party which was an event in which a group of c...

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The author makes it really clear that enormous cultural, social, and economic changes were occurring in the colonies dating from the French and Indian War. ... The most interesting section of the book was the discussion of the French-Indian War or the "Seven Years War" and how it lead Great Britain to place an army on the frontier and to impose certain taxes to pay its cost. ... In every chapter the author gives very good facts about each segment covered in the chapter, the book doesn't keep on talking about certain events for too long it just gives you the most important facts. The boo...

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One of the more important events was the Boston Tea Party. ... The Revolutionary War was the event that brought forth the Declaration of Independence. ... The war had now begun. This was the war to end colonialism, also known as the Revolutionary War. ... Then all of the events that occurred leading up to the Revolutionary War never would have happened. ...

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War was not decided upon in a single day; the accumulated sequence of events led them to declare war. Eventually, the war between Britain and the colonists occurred in 1774. ... The French and Indian War increased Britain's national debt. ... Lastly, important decisions that were related to the colonists' lives were made without colonial representation in Parliament. ... Therefore, this war declaring independence definitely was justified....

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Two of the major events commonly regarded as preludes to the American Revolution were the enactment of the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765), designed to increase British tax revenues. ... After the last French and Indian War(1754-63) the British gained Canada and the Missisippi area as new territories. The war was won but the costs had been huge, and would remain high due to the need to protect the colonies against other (western or native) enemies. ... The Sugar Act caused alarm in the American colonies, partly because of the expected economic disadvantages, but also because of a num...

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Irving was called the literary vagabond in England, Holland, France and Italy and frequently wrote using the creative tools of fiction to comment on historical background and events of American history. ... The story makes several references of pre and post situations of the American Revolutionary War. ... (P.382) Ironically, the American Independence, one of the most important historical events of America did not affect Rip that much. ... (P.282) Therefore, his awakening to a new world suggests the new conditions of the US after the war. ... Connections made to historical events are...

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In 1702, the twelve-year war broke out. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War gave its name to the whole series of wars because it was the last and most important conflict. ... This act enforced taxes on legal documents, such as marriage licenses, newspapers, and other important documents. ... This event was then called the Boston Massacre. ...

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In 1702, the twelve-year war broke out. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War gave its name to the whole series of wars because it was the last and most important conflict. ... This act enforced taxes on legal documents, such as marriage licenses, newspapers, and other important documents. ... This event was then called the Boston Massacre. ...

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American Revolution Essay: Question One The American Revolution was truly a huge historical event, but few people know what ended it all. The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War but it took quite awhile to come about. ... The terms were first and most importantly, the British acknowledged the United States as a free and independent nation. ... I think the most important term of the Treaty of Paris is the acknowledgment of independence of the United States. ...

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The British defeat of France in the Seven Years" War in 1763, however, soon saw many changes occurring in the colonies. ... These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. ... The Stamp Act, however, was repealed in 1766, on the 18th of March and "though the Act and the colonial measures to annul it had excited fears on both sides of the water the most important cause the threat of immediate colonial rebellion were removed" . ... This supposed riot was resultant of the ascending hostility between the British and the A...

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During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. ... During the Revolutionary War, England was not only alarmed by the colonists' insistence on trading with the enemy. The Americans were or were not justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain. ... Dickinson makes an important distinction between the rights of the colonies and the authority of the parliament. ... Altogether the Revolutionary War was bound to happen, if people wanted to be free bad enough they will be war to gain freedom if it is not resolved poli...

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James Otis The Revolutionary War brought out dynamic personalities of men, which have made freedom a reality for us. ... Such orations led to political unrest, often times inciting fellow patriots to seek war. ... Yet, his mid war selling out to the British, proverbially "bit him in the back."" ... Without question, the most overblown out of proportion event leading to the war, was that of the Boston Massacre. ... In the event of the 1770 massacre, the warfront effort was shaped socially, politically, and theoretically. ...

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The events took them in opposing directions, yet united them in their hopes. ... The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. ... But the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. Moreover, the war generated substantial resenment towards the colonists among English leaders, who were not satisfied with the financial and military help they had received from the colonists during the war. ... The war had an equally profound but very different effect on the American colonists. ...

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The events took them in opposing directions, yet united them in their hopes. ... The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. ... But the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. Moreover, the war generated substantial resenment towards the colonists among English leaders, who were not satisfied with the financial and military help they had received from the colonists during the war. ... The war had an equally profound but very different effect on the American colonists. ...

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This date is very important, for on this date many colonists lost their lives in an unforeseen incident. The slaughter of the colonists was a very important step; because it led them to the Revolutionary War. ... The slaughter begins; officially, there is only one report on the events of the March 5 1770. ... The colonists were ready to undertake the venture and stand for what they believed in, which later led them to inevitable Revolutionary war where they gained their independence from England. ...

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Congress had to either borrow funds from private suppliers or tax the states to finance the post-war reconstruction. ... These events proved the Confederation was weak and unable to control financial problems. Diplomatic problems multiplied after the war. ... The British still remained in the United States even after the war. ... Even though there are some very important advantages of the Articles of Confederation, they certainly don't outweigh those disadvantages. ...

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The American Revolution had its beginnings in the French and Indian war. ... After winning the war, Britain had a huge debt to pay. ... In 1763, the Seven-Year War in Europe and the French and Indian War in the colonies was over, and with the end came a British debt of over 140 million pounds. ... This was the first example that the colonies' perception of the actions of their mother country, Britain, was more important than the reality of those actions. ... This would prove to be an important beginning, because events such as the Continental Congresses were to follow. ...

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The war was no longer about "the defense of their country, or for their rightful liberties as freeborn Englishmen," but for a "proudly proclaimed all-out war for an independent America of freedom and equality" (137). ... And this war really was more of a civil war before the motives became clear and a revolution really was in full scale. ... On the top as well as the bottom of the war stood many important players, and these players had the most influence in the way the war was fought. ... The Americans had three strong aces up their sleeves, and it was with their help that ...

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Many tumultuous events, during the late 1700's, resulted in colonial opposition to Great Britain. ... After the French and Indian war, the British government was in dept. ... It was not their war for empire, why should they be obliged to pay for Great Britain's war against their own enemy? ... This would prove to be an important beginning, because events such as the Continental Congress were to follow. ... This event happened when a crowd of sixty towns people surrounded British sentries guarding the customs house. ...

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After seven years of war between France and Grand Britain, grand Britain won but faced a huge war debt (140 million pounds) the ministry was determine to reform the empire: "Either the colonies would of their own accord furnish funds or parliament had to seize them. ... They are to many reasons of why they became so important for the independence of the United States from Grand Britain. ... Not only their politic knowledge nor the economic influence between their colonist help them to played an important role. But because they were always involved and participated on those event that make ...

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The period preceding the American Revolution offered us real causes for the American Revolutionary War and its independence. ... America soon adopted this version of mob which played an important role in America's road towards its independence. ... This union of force, where Sons of Liberty adopted its name, would be very important in the next few decades when fighting for their independence against the mother country England. ... During this period of time, there were some very important people emerging in the history of United States, John Wilks from Great Britain was very famous and si...

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Throughout all of history, religion has played an important role in the actions of groups or individuals. ... Lives were lost in the name of religion, both in the sense of martyrs dying for their beliefs and in wars fought for religion, such as the Crusades. ... Government, education, legal systems, social events, clothing, and home decor were all governed by the regulations of Puritanism. ...

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