As you can see from this list there are a lot of different opinions and ideas in the American Colonies. ... To prove the point that the American colonies were going to get out of the British control, I will say that the colonies got a Virginian Charter, which let the colonies to be self-governing. ... The following Navigation Acts of 1663 and 1763, would stir the colonists hearts even more. ... The Navigation Act of 1763 would have British commissioners in colonies collecting taxes between plantations. ... Native Americans were a problem too. ...

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There were over 15 laws/policies put in place by the British government from 1763-1766 that angered the Colonial Americans. ... At this time in the American Revolution only a few colonies with militias fighting against the British. ... After The Treaty of Paris of 1763, the American colonists expected the British soldiers to go back to Britain, Prime Minister Greenville determined to maintain up to 10,000 British troops in America to control both colonists and Indians. ... In the Proclamation of 1763, issued October of 1763 by King George III, it "forbade all settlement past the Appalachi...

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During the time period between the 17th and mid 18th centuries, there had been little British intervention in the American colonies. ... By 1763, however, the British sights were once again set on the colonies, and they began to intervene as they should have early on in the development of their colonies. ... England felt that the Americans should pay one-third of the cost to keep a small British army for self defense, so England's Prime Minister Grenville began to earn the money from the colonies in a series of acts, earning him the resentment of the colonies. In 1763, he immediately ...

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The Americans were colonies of England, who wished for independence from "Mother England". ... However, the American's cause was for Independence from a country that did nothing for its colonies. ... The British viewed its colonies in America as just "moneymakers", disregarding salutary neglect. However, this disregard for salutary neglect only occurred when the British ended it in 1763. ... In 1763, Britain issued a proclamation that ended all settlement West if a line running along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. ...

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On July 4th 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved and signed by fifty-six men, to whom they agreed to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"; these men represented the thirteen North American colonies that were proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, founding the United States of America. ... The French and Indian war took place in America. ... Like all wars, there was a price to pay; this one left the British government with a great debt so Parliament turned their attention to the lucrative colonies and began passing acts ...

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Britain on many cases refused to accept that the colonies had grown out of their earlier status. 1763 seemed to be the start of all controversies in the revolution. ... Britain began to immediately enforce existing laws, they started taxing the colonies, and they also started to make attacks on Americans rights to govern themselves. ... Grenville wanted to stop smuggling into the colonies by placing British ships on American ports. ... As the story was passed throughout the colonies, the story became a sort of propaganda to turn Americans against Britain. ... The American Revolution ...

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Another reason that justifies the American Revolution is the numerous laws and acts that the British imposed on the colonies. ... Beginning in 1733 with the Molasses Act that, "levied a stiff tax on rum, molasses, and sugar produced in the British West Indies for sale to the colonies",[Dig141], people in America began to see that England was growing its economy at the expense of the colonies. In reference to the Stamp Act in 1765, Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying during a testimony of the act, "I know it is appropriated by the act to the American service; but it will be spe...

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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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Each of these three men were founding fathers of the United States of America and instrumental in its creation. ... Jefferson would then continue his education studying at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1760 to 1763. ... The Miller Center (n.d.) states that in 1774 Jefferson wrote "Summary View of the Rights of British America". In this document Jefferson opposed the British control over the colonies. ... Adams also played a major role in the establishment of independent governments in the colonies. ...

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