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They were seen as being more punitive than pragmatic. Certainly the British needed revenue after the French & Indian War to support their standing army in the colonies, but to tax the colonists in order to police them with multitudes of Redcoats, was absurd, and caused the colonists -- many of whom had tried to stay loyal to the King -- to become cynical, skeptical, and in the end, very angry.
FOUR: How did the colonists respond?
Certainly -- as the text reports on page 138 -- the colonists thought they were British subjects, and of course they were. But when the Sugar and Stamp Acts were handed down, many colonists it seemed unfair and "in deep violation of what they perceived to be their rights and liberties" as British subjects. In time, large street protests were helping to build the demand for new policies. One of the colonists' most dramatic responses was to dump "thousands of pounds of tea into the Atlantic Ocean " on December 16, 1773. Moreover, the colonists began communicating their protestations through printed pamphlets and newspapers,...
Instead of taxing the colonies, the British could have entered into trade agreements with the colonies; both parties could have benefited when partnering in trade relations with other countries. The British could have been seen as a partner rather than an oppressive autocratic regime on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The British executive establishment apparently could not see any way other than by brute force and punitive taxation policies to interact with the colonies. This shows an embarrassing lack of diplomatic competency on the part of the British; they should have viewed the emergence of America proudly, and been helpful, rather than the path they chose. Exploitation was the name of the game the British played, while the colonists just wanted to be allowed to grow into a nation based…
5). Surprisingly, however, in a corpus of 50,000 spoken words compiled from "group discussions between representatives of the EU government and national agencies of higher education" (pp. 6-7), Breiteneder (2009) did not find a large incidence of 3rd person singular - O. In only about 21% of the cases where 3rd personal singular was used was the -s left off. Perhaps, reasons Breiteneder, this is because all the speakers
American Colonists vs. British Policymakers 1763-1776 American Colonists vs. British Policymakers 1763-1776 Great Britain's victory in the "French and Indian War" (1689 -- 1763) gained new territory west of the Appalachian Mountains for the Empire but also saddled It with enormous war debt (The Independence Hall Association, 2011) in addition to Its existing debts. Great Britain's national debt had grown "from £72,289,673 in 1755 to £129,586,789 in 1764" (The Independence Hall Association, 2011),
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The success of the Tea Party resulted in Britain's Parliament passing the Coercive Acts, nearly establishing martial law in Massachusetts, getting rid of t he colonial government and closing the Boston port and sending in troops 67. Despite these attempts at quelling the colonists, the town meetings and mass meetings continued to develop in opposition. It soon became even more clear that the colonies needed to include the poorer classes
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