Nonviolence is a very effective form of protest because people can get the rights and authority that they fight for from the hostile class, government or country without sanguinary wars. Nonviolence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence. ... The colonists often had issues with it's mother country, however this first really came into play after the French and Indian War. ... Colonists were fed up with this attitude; when a British general lost a major battle to Indians they saw that the British were not invincible. Then after the war the British p...

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Economically, the country was developing strategies for trading with other countries, although it was forbidden, and had also developed a small amount of self-sufficiency to some degree. ... As the same with the political standpoint, economic strategies and methods evolved gradually also. ... When the war ended, Americans had some trouble adjusting. ... When the French and Indian War came to a close, a new nationalistic feeling arose out of individual Americans and they came to see themselves as Americans, and not British. ... This all took place during the course of the war, and even mino...

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Soon after the Seven Years War (1756–1763) ended, England imposed higher taxes on its colonies in order to compensate for the tremendous financial loss caused by the war. In fact, for almost eighty years, England was in war, not only in the new continent but also with other European countries. By allying with Prussia, Britain engaged in a maritime strategy and concentrated all of its power on the Seven Year War in America, waged against the French and Indians. During this period of time, England's Prime Minister, Edward Walpole, proposed the idea of Salutary Neglect, where colonies ...

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