It was how the British brought the taxes upon the colonies. ... If the British wanted to tax the colonies then the colonies wanted to have a say in the taxation. ... The first factors and the beginning of unrest in the colonial people were the Proclamation of 1763, and the French and Indian War. The Proclamation of 1763 stated that every British subject must stay east of the Appalachian Mountains. ... The French and the Indian War was a great factor in the strife of the colonists, because if the French are out of North America, then the colonists did not need the British to protect them from t...

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• Grade Level: High School

The American Revolution ended two centuries of British rule for most of the North American colonies and created the modern United States of America. ... Most of all, the American Revolution was a conservative one. ... The colonies economic stability was based on slavery, which was an unlawful source of cheap labor. ... The Proclamation of 1763, which allowed no settlement west of the Appellations, upset land speculators. ... Before the American Revolution many Americans lived by standards implicit in such words as honor, glory, and sacrifice. ...

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How "Revolutionary" was the American Revolution? ... This all changed abruptly in 1763. ... It was agreed that the colonies would refuse to import British goods unless the grievances were righted. ... But the darkness over America was slowly lifting. ... The fact that the events prior to the American Revolution suggested a call for change by the American people, and that indeed huge changes were seen as the Colonies became the United States, would suggest on it's own that the American Revolution was exactly that - a Revolution. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He gained much of his reputation and respect by his actions in the Parsons Case of 1763, which permitted Anglican Clergy to be paid in currency rather than tobacco which was the commodity mandated by the British Government. ... His resolve was that only Colonial legislators could pass taxation laws and acts upon the colonies. This resolution forced other colonies to think hard about their stance towards the British government and opinions of it. ... At the Virginian Convention in 1775 he was able to successfully promote and initiate measures for an armed resistance to the British imposition on...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain and its colonists were known as one entity. However, in the years before the war, the differences between both sides gradually evolved to create two separate parties - Great Britain and the rebellious Americans. ... In the colonies, they recruited thousands of Loyalists and Indians as well. ... They lacked political unity and rivalries between colonies prevented progress. ... To win, all they had to do was restore their status to pre-1763, around the time of Prime Minister Grenville's strict enforcement of the Navigation Ac...

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