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    colonist pay their fair share for the administration of the Kingdom. Some of these policies were; the Sugar Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Act of 1767, the Tea Act of 1773, and the Intolerable Act. The main policies that triggered American rebellion and a movement towards independence were the Stamp Act of 1765, the Tea Act of 1773, and the Intolerable Act of 1774. According to the Stamp Act of 1765, all legal documents including newspapers, advertisement bills, licenses, bond, almanacs

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    The American Revolution was a colossal movement that was responsible for changing the face of America and the American government forever. An overwhelming abundance of struggles caused American colonists to begin developing an angry and justice-craving mentality. However, the initial spark of upset among the colonists pinpoints back to debts from the French and Indian War, and how Britain forced taxes upon Americans as a weak attempt to recover the money and resources they lost. This decision and

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    Acts, and a Tea Tax caused rebellion among the Colonists. One of the most prolific stands against the establishment would have the Colonists from Boston, Massachusetts rebel against the Redcoats who fired into a crowd and murdered for Bostonians with the Boston Tea Party; an event where the angry people of Boston, known as the Sons of Liberty, dressed up as Indians to gain access to the British East India Company ships: The Beaver, The Dartmouth, and The Eleanor. In protest of the Tea Tax, after gaining

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    The creation of the American nation became what it is today from years of struggle in which the common people, as well as the Founding Fathers, played a vital part for independence. The promise of the Revolution, a nation based on the republican ideals of liberty, independence, and equality, was to some extent achieved. Yet the great principles of the Revolution have long shaped our thoughts of what it means to be an American. All the events leading up and after the American Revolution will have

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    nutshell, history teaches us that domestic terrorism can be explained as a violent tendency towards a movement and rights group to proof who or what is authentic in American system. On the other side it is a foreign terrorism or an extreme group with minds to attack and kill American citizens. I will discuss the different historical forms of terrorism groups in America since the time of Boston Tea Party to the 21st century American and global terrorism and what solutions and what it teach us in our own

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    The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was a statement made by angry colonists to the British Parliament that enough was enough. The colonists were enraged over Parliaments constant abuse of power. They wanted their independence and Parliament wanted no part of that, which fueled their cause and the incidents thereafter will go down in history as the most important endeavors in history. Leading up to the revolt were events that further agitated the colonists and began to strain the relationship between

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    territory in North America. However, they faced the challenge of protecting their interests in the colonies and new territory. Limiting western settlement provided several advantages for Britain. It allowed the British government to control westward movement and to avoid conflict with Native Americans and the colonists felt it was wrong because they can't go west and it is controlled by the British government. Also, keeping colonist near the East Coast ensured a market for British goods in the coastal

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    known as the Coercive Acts, were created by Parliament solely to punish the colonies in response to the Boston Tea Party, an act of colonial defiance in which the colonists dumped large amounts of tea. The acts themselves consisted of 4 acts, each as a measure to secure English jurisdiction over their American Domains. The Boston Port Act would close down the port of Boston until the dumped tea was paid for. This would soon cause other colonies to send support in the form of supplies. The next act, the

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    1. Eighteenth-century colonial population growth- From 1700 to 1775 the colonies experienced a population growth from 250,000 people to 2.5 million people by the beginning of the American Revolution. There were factors to this great population increase. The factors include natural increase because the colonists were living longer and their children were having children, an influx of immigrants from Ireland and Germany, and the increased immigration of African American slaves. 2. The First Great

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    Revolutionary War Causes

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    Causes of the Revolutionary War “We fight, get beat, rise and fight again!” -General Nathanael Greene 1781. There is always a cause behind a fight, a war, a movement. The American soldiers had been beaten down but always got back up for their freedom. For the Revolutionary war, there is many causes, from unjust acts to massacres, these are the causes of The Revolutionary War. When the colonists first settled, problems began. The colonists felt like they needed more land. In 1607, there were about

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