As the unrest grew in the colonies, King George sent extra troops to help control any rebellion. ... He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: • For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: • For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of T...

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The Scots sought help from England, but Elizabeth, who already knew that her throne was at stake, refused to help because she did not want war. ... However, the lords that still loved Mary freed her and they sailed to England. ... Mary I secretly wrote letters to the lords in Spain asking King Phillip to send ships to defeat Elizabeth and make Mary I queen. ... In July of 1588, the Armanda, a fleet of 130 ships, sent by Philip of Spain in hopes of gaining Catholic leadership in Engalnd, set out to invade England. ... Eventually, most of the ships got destroyed in a storm and the rest retrea...

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" James I followed pro-Catholic foreign policy with Spain and discriminated against conservative Protestants known as Puritans. ... They agreed to help the king as long as he abandoned his absolutist ways. ... In desperation, the king called in the Scots and Irish catholic troops for help. ... Cromwell was very liked by the people he helped England by creating a marine fleet, encouraged the return of the Jews to England ,supported the arts and sponsored many ventures to the Americas. ... Some of the rights in the Bill Of Rights are that it is the right of the subjects to petition the ki...

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Religion and religious tolerance was completely different in each region, running from being free to complete persecution. ... The Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, asked the King of England to help out. ... Georgia was founded to try and get rid of debtors in England and create a buffer between English America and Spanish Florida. ... Although each of these regions had quite a few aspects in common (which helped them to eventually unite against the mother country that was England in the war for independence in 1776), they were also very much different from one another in areas such as t...

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He has become one of the most recognized names in history and he opened up the exploration for Spain into the new world. ... Thomas Jefferson, a century later, did not only create a better life for himself, but he helped create a better life for us today. ... Thomas Jefferson had the dream of being a successful politician and also a free man from England's constant bullying of the colonies. ...

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Italy with Dante, Machiavelli and Ariosto, while Spain with Juan del Encina and Fernando de Rojas. ... " Shakespeare rhymed "tea" with tay, "sea" with say, he was very free with words in his plays. ... Shakespeare gave us a new world in words and insights which would colour, help, deepen, lighten and depict our lives in thought and feeling. ...

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The term "white man's burden" came into existence during the Spanish-American war, and came to represent the magnanimous and charitable attitude of white society toward "less-civilized" cultures, which were seen as the economic burden of the white race ("History Matters," N.D., para. 1). ... This theory helped motivate the European compulsion to "domesticate" those they considered uncivilized, in order to make the world a safer place for the white man and his family. ... US and Allied tacticians knew that a massive power vacuum would ensue, once the...

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This helped in its acceptance and also meant that for the first time, the history of the Celts was written down. ... The acceptance of Christianity was also helped by the fact that it developed in Ireland solely along monastic lines. ... They even took on Christianity as those had done before them and they also left us the name of the country with the help of the Gaels. ...

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This meant that no slaves were emancipated and countries such a France, Portugal and Spain still traded slaves. ... Sharp could not allow this injustice and so took the case to court and the Lord Mayor of London ruled that Strong should be freed. Sharp won Jonathan Strong's case and so helped many other recaptured slaves to freedom. ... Despite the fact that the middle-class campaigners helped to get the slave trade banned, other social groups also did their part. ... His letters were published after his death and it was an immediate bestseller that may have changed the opinions of many r...

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