Dbq Summary: The 13 Colonies In North America

British North America by the mid 1700’s consisted of three major regions. The New England region included the colonies of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The Middle Region included the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The Southern Region, also known as the Chesapeake Colonies, included the Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Although all three regions consisted of British colonies, each region differed in terms of climate, geography, population, politics, economy, and religious attitudes. Daily life was very different for the people who lived in each of these

Beginning in 1764, Great Britain began passing acts to exert greater control over the American colonies. The Sugar Act was passed to increase duties on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies. A Currency Act was also passed to ban the colonies from issuing paper bills or bills of credit because of the belief that the colonial currency had devalued the British money. Further, in order to continue to support the British soldiers left in America after the war, Great Britain passed the Quartering Act in 1765. This ordered colonists to house and feed British soldiers if there was not enough room for them in the colonist’s homes. An important piece of legislation that really upset the colonists was the Stamp Act passed in 1765. This required stamps to be purchased or included on many different items and documents such as playing cards, legal papers, newspapers, and more. This was the first direct tax that Britain had imposed on the colonists. Events began to escalate with passage of the Townshend Acts in 1767. These taxes were created to help colonial officials become independent of the colonists by providing them with a source of income. This act led to clashes between British troops and colonists, causing the infamous Boston Massacre. These unjust requests and increasing tensions all led up to the colonist’s declaration as well as the Revolutionary War.

The thirteen British colonies of North America were slowly going into independence. The people (colonists) were proud of being British, they had no desire to separate from their own country. April 19, 1775 people made calls for independent. Also in that year of July the Second Continental Congress sent the King a request for redress and reconciliation, which Dickinson had to drain indubitably.

The extent to which the conflict between Great Britain and her North American colonies was economic in origin rather than rooted in political and social controversies and differences. For example, the imposement on trade and taxation on imports and exports.

The Stamp Act was an important act introduced by the British Prime Minister George Grenville that was then passed in March 1765 by the British Parliament. The purpose was to raise money for national debt of Britain after the Seven Years War and Parliament needed means to help fund expensive costs of keeping troops inside the colonies. The act levied a tax on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, and nearly every other form of paper used in the colonies. The British Government felt that the colonies were the primary reason of the military presence and should pay a portion of the expense. The American colonies did not take kindly to this matter.

a) The Stamp Act was issued in 1765 by Parliament, and it forced colonists to pay a tax on all printed documents such as newspapers, pamphlets, college diplomas, land titles, and playing cards. This tariff was created in order to cover part of the cost of stationing the British troops in America which proved to be very costly.

From 1763 to 1776 many battles occurred between the colonies and Great Britain. Colonist believed that Great Britain’s creation of laws such as the Stamp Act and Sugar Act were taking away their liberties and money. In response, the colonist rebelled to break away from Great Britain and become their own nation which today is know as the United States. Although the colonist growth in nationalism was a reason for the revolution, Britain's economic, political, and social policies on the 13 colonies influenced the colonist to rebel for their freedom which was also called the American Revolution.

It affected them geographically, by sparking an interest into getting rich, and it also threw light on the idea of trade routes/ trading, which gave people the reality of “ striking rich”. The colonists were also affected economically. Once the colonists were introduced to mercantilism. Soon, Merchants believed that the world's wealth was finite and that one nation could only grow rich at the expense of another. The merchants practiced this by extracting and importing wealth from foreign lands while exporting little wealth from home. Much of the growth of the American colonies came from religious groups. There were many problems between catholics and protestants, such as when Lord Baltimore ( business owner) adopted a policy of religious

The Stamp Act of 1765 was passed by parliament as a direct tax on the colonies for paper products carrying an embossed revenue stamp. The revenue created by this act would fund the British troops still stationed in America, protecting the colonies.

The familiar saying, “You can’t get something from nothing,” has a particularly significant meaning when it is used in context with the American Revolution. During the 1763-1776 period, many events occurred that led to the American Revolution. The Revolution however, was a mental rebellion before it turned physical and it should have been called the “British Revolution” because changes in Britain had more of an effect on the war than changes in America did. The reasons for the American Revolution elicits a variety of opinions, but there are many reasons that can justify why it was the British actions that made such a perennial change for America. The British started the Revolution through their salutary neglect, imposing new acts and laws onto

It is the year 1765, we shouldn’t be taxed on silly things such as paper. I am upset that the British Parliament believes that they if they have debt, they can automatically just tax us and everything will be fine. The Parliament is doing the wrong because they did not have the colonies consent to tax us. The British Parliament should not be able to tax our colonies without our consent. I am a man who believes in freedom, we should not have to follow everything that they say.

war, it is a sign of radical action. Britains' army was four times as big

In March 1765 England passed the Stamp Act without the colonists approval. This sent all of the colonists into an outrage. The Stamp Act was a tax were all colonists would have to pay a tax on all of the British goods. England needed money to pay off war debts for the French and Indian war, which was between the French and the English, the Stamp Act would give the British money to pay off the soldiers and other people who helped in the war.

The European conquest for establishing North American colonies began with various motivations, each dependent on different, and/or merging necessities: economics, the desire to flee negative societal aspects, and the search for religious freedoms. Originally discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 in search for a trade route to Cathay (China), North America remained uninhabited, excluding the Native American establishments. Following this discovery, Spain –along with other European nations such as France, England, Sweden and the Netherlands– soon began the expedition to the new land with vast expectations. Driven by economic, societal, and religious purposes, the New World developed into a diversely structured colonial establishment

There were many eventful events that led to the American Independence. It was a long, rough, extravagant war with many disagreements and no solutions. Many lives of the American colonies were sacrificed due to defending their beliefs, requests and wanting Independency from Great Britain. The main problem between these two was money and respect that is not given. Because of their plans and actions, such as revolting against Great Britain, it had paid off after countless of years that has passed. The thirteen British colonies in North America were able to overcome numerous events that led up to the American Independence.