Then somewhere near one hundred men known as the Sons of Liberty would board the ship disguised as Indians. ... The near hundred men, all dressed as Indians, boarded the ship and with their tomahawks, they broke the chests of tea open and succeeded in dumping 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. ... Some people called these laws the Punitive Acts, and some called them the Coercive Acts. ... The bad thing about this law was that it punished the innocent as well as the guilty. The second of the laws was a modification to the Massachusetts charter of 1691. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Between the years 1607 and 1766 the colonies were governed by British law, to the colonist there were many flaws in the rule but one which could not be overlooked would be the absence of "unalienable rights". ... When the path grew clearer that independence would be a definite in the near future the colonists were left with one issue, a new form a government. ... The problem with these new set of laws was that the alliance was too loose. ... Along with the bill of rights there was a need for a constitutional conference and a better proportion of representative majority to pass laws. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Since this was almost impossible, there always being two sides to everything [a pro and a con], changing the Articles to eliminate the ideas that did not function properly was near impossible. ... It could not regulate commerce, so what resulted was thirteen colonies with different taxations and tariff laws. ... It promoted unity in that Congress would now regulate all interstate and foreign commerce; this eliminated many disputes since there was a simple majority rule to pass laws. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America had the raw materials, and was unwilling to abide by the hated laws of England, only allowing England and no other country to use them, this made smuggling to the colonist unusually common. ... As the time for revolution came nearer and nearer, the colonies became less and less dependent upon the British Empire, and more dependent upon themselves and other countries. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. ... These made the British make many new laws and acts on the colonists over time. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another major cause of the French Revolution was the near collapse of government finances. ... The teachings of 18th-century French philosophers and continental writers on law, such as Emmerich de Vattel, as well as the theories of John Locke, were implicit in the colonial arguments based on the theory of natural rights. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Under British rule, the colonists were denied these simple rights and were forced to coincide with the Parliamentary laws. ... Another such act was the Tea Act, which essentially gave the near bankrupt British East India Company a monopoly in the trade of tea (www.thedeclarationofindependence.com). ... The colonist were not represented in the English Parliament thus having no say in any of the acts and laws passed that impacted their lives. ...

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The Republicans claimed that assumption was against the ideals of the American Revolution, and that if the assumption law were to pass, the U.S. would become exactly what they had so adamantly fought against during the Revolutionary War. ... Constitution specifically prohibits Congress from passing a law that abolishes the slave trade and slavery until 1808. ... Instead of arguing about whether or not to remain neutral, the American people, and the many delegates in Congress argued upon whether to support England or France in the near future. ... After the revolutionary era passed, questions s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

British officials would pass out laws and acts for colonies, and send their governors in the colonies to have the control over the future states. ... Dutch were also present having some territory near the colonies. ... As it is said above when the colonists got the Virginian Charter, colonies got the chance to get their own government, their own laws, and their own rules. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, evaluate this statement. The colonist, now with their independence needed a government to which they could use as an organizer for their...

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Anne Hutchinson challenged the Puritan status quo by claiming her own interpretation of the bible but that was considered heresy by Puritan law and she was banished from the Bay Colony. ... By 1776 tensions were high and Thomas Jefferson had penned the Declaration of Independence which all but assured a confrontation with Britain in the near future. ...

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