Despite their close alliances, the Indians, the French were never able to overcome the disadvantage of their small population in Canada and their lack of organized colonies. ... The first act that was passed by the Parliament was the Navigation Act. ... In 1765, the Parliament decided to pass the Stamp Act. ... The colonists shouted in protest against the Parliament and their money-hungry enactments. To enforce these acts, the Parliament announced that any offenders would be tried in the Admiralty courts. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Despite their close alliances, the Indians, the French were never able to overcome the disadvantage of their small population in Canada and their lack of organized colonies. ... The first act that was passed by the Parliament was the Navigation Act. ... In 1765, the Parliament decided to pass the Stamp Act. ... The colonists shouted in protest against the Parliament and their money-hungry enactments. To enforce these acts, the Parliament announced that any offenders would be tried in the Admiralty courts. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The British tried to restrict the growth of westward expansion into Canada and the Mississippi valley. ... Parliament in Britain then passed another act, the Currency Act, trying to make sure that the only "real" money used in the colonies would be British. ... The colonists wanted to have members from America represent them in the British Parliament. ... Instead of subduing and isolating Massachusetts as Parliament intended, these acts got everyone else in the other colonies mad!!! ...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the...

• Word Count: 1791
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate