Unlike any other King before him, he had to rule his people with the notion that parliament always had a say in what went on. This idea had always been in force to the colonist until 1763 once King George took their power of being able to speak freely against the king in local governments by enacting things such as military rule in Boston Massachusetts. ... The following years presented a fight to gain power between Charles II and King James II. ... Once King George and Parliament enacted laws and taxes to the colonist, Americans began to feel that the King was limiting their freedom. ... Once...

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Whatever may be the consequences, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over". ... Even the king cannot be immune to the "Laws of Nature". ... Our natural rights, which we are born with, make us equals, no matter what station you have in life, we should all be treated the same before the eyes of the law. ... Following the preamble is a long list of, historical and political, wrong doings by King George III, who is referred to as "He". ... It appealed to its audience because it was written in the form of an argument, the same argument that had been talked about ...

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This however only angered the king more, only adding to the growing bitterness between Great Britain and the colonies. ... As time went on, the king passed acts that enabled him to be able to appoint people to positions of power in the colonies instead of the people living there. ... Lastly, the king finally passed what are called the Prohibitory Acts. These said that all colonial ships were property of the crown, they forbid trade with the colonies, and said that all colonial sailors could be impressed into the royal navy if seized. ... Because King Charles III could not help but tax the co...

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Many accusations were leveled at the British government, and in particular, it's head, King George III, among them being; "cutting off [America's] Trade with all parts of the world, imposing Taxes on [the colonies] without [their] Consent, taking away [the colonies"] Charters, abolishing [their] most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of [their] Governments, suspending [their] own Legislatures, and declaring themselves (England) invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of ...

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Yet through all the gloom I see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth all the means. ... One would see petitions overlooked and the foolish and harshness of the crown (a.k.a. the King). ... The colonists were paying Britain to literally spy on them all day. ... In the Proclamation of 1763, issued October of 1763 by King George III, it "forbade all settlement past the Appalachian Mountains....

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The merchants complained to the king, who at that time was King George III, and he repealed the taxes. All but the one on tea that is. ... As soon as King George III heard of the tea party, he was furious. ... There were five Intolerable Acts all together. ... He wrote a pamphlet called "Common Sense", and in it the attacks he made on King George III got the people excited about it. ...

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Henceforth the king was the sole repository of sovereign power. In a very real sense the king was the state. ... All that devouring and insatiable monsters imagined since imagination could record itself. ... King George aimed to destroy American people's liberty. ... Although the American Revolution validated the idea that all men were created equal, slavery was legal in all the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period. ...

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On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress felt the need to break all ties with Great Britain had been stronger than ever. ... "The list accused the king of dissolving colonial governments, controlling judges, sending "swarms of Officers to harass our people," (Zinn 72). ... In order to keep control over the colonists, the English took control of all trade in and out of the colonies. ... The Declaration of Independence stated many of the faults of the king, one of which was cutting of trade with the rest of the world. ... All of these acts were greatly disagreed with by the colonist they too...

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Although Britain had won the war, King George II decided to undertake a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over its rather autonomous colonies. ... This aggravated the colonies in America as the King wanted them to help pay for their defence and the expenses. ... They decided that the Stamp Act and all the other taxation laws were illegal since the colonies were not represented in the British Parliament. "No taxation without representation" 4 was a popular slogan that was used as a common cry of all the colonies during the 1760's. ... "The Bloody Ma...

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Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. ... This was an agreement of the colonies to stop all trade with Britain until their demands were met. ... If King George III did not repeal the Intolerable Acts, they would meet again in the future. ... By August, all of the fifty-five signatures were written in on this document. ... The Articles passed in 1777, but were not ratified by all the states until 1781. ...

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Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. ... This was an agreement of the colonies to stop all trade with Britain until their demands were met. ... If King George III did not repeal the Intolerable Acts, they would meet again in the future. ... By August, all of the fifty-five signatures were written in on this document. ... The Articles passed in 1777, but were not ratified by all the states until 1781. ...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... McCullough offers the British perspective on the events in faraway North America first, re-creating the debate in Parliament over the king's decision to quash the rebellion. ... Howe had served under General James Wolfe, who called him "the best officer in the King's service.... Alexander Hamilton and his men surrounded Nassau Hall on the Princeton College campus, where some two hundred British were garrisoned, capturing...

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Other ways in which America was different than Britain was its religious diversity and lack of urban development[Dig14]; the colonies and Great Britain simply did not have the same way of life, which begs the question as to why they were connected at all. ... Brought about by the Tea Act in 1773 that allowed the East Indian Company to bypass American wholesalers (cutting out the wholesaler's profit), a group of colonists boarded a ship laden with tea and threw all the tea overboard. The colonists ruined all the imported tea and sent a clear message to the British that they were revolting....

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Significantly, their king was particularly inept, and chose to exploit the colonies through taxation rather than allow them to prosper on their own. Colonists seeking changes to create a more viable imperial union, got from the King the so-called Intolerable Acts and a proposal to bring over more British soldiers. ... From the Haitian Revolution's beginning in a Voodoo ceremony in Bois Caman, where slaves swore to kill all whites on the island, it was more a rebellion against the white oppressors than for ideals like "liberté, egalité, fraternité."" ... The governm...

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This all changed abruptly in 1763. ... A petition was sent to the King. ... The combination of the French recognition of the United States (1778) and its allegiance with the same which bought much need supplies and money to the colonists, and in a small way Spain's declaration of War against the British in 1779, and the continued persistence of the colonists, all attributed to the British Surrender on October 19th 1781. ... That they felt that as all men are equal under their creator, that they had the right to throw off the British Rule, and create one of their own. ... The Declarati...

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The views of the colonies on the whole issue of dependence and independence was that it should not even be considered a factor for in their minds they were all the same subjects of the same country. ... This is the reason why the colonists "claim an exemption from all Parliamentary Impositions, so that they may enjoy the securities of their rights and properties of not being taxed without the consent." ... In addition, what intrigues the English is the fact that the colonists "declare openly that the Parliament of England had no right to tax them" (Page 102) yet if they are deemed as subjects ...

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The British King owed the young Penn's father 16,000 pounds for a war he helped finance and unpaid salary. ... Additionally, this Charter of Liberties guaranteed free and fair trial by jury for all, justice in imprisonment and free elections. ... In fact, the Quakers', "Holy Experiment," demonstrated Penn's principles and beliefs of Freedom for all. First of all, as stated in the first article of the Charter of Privileges, William Penn gave the colonists the Freedom of Religion, opening the colony to all the world's religions. ... First of all, Pennsylvania had ...

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They were afraid of the king getting too strong, and they wished to maintain local control. ... All of these economic changes and struggle implicated by the mother country old made their acts seem all the more unbearable. ... Britain's intolerable acts among colonies further brought the colonies together as they all agreed on boycott movements and shared the same opinion of the unjust Parliament. ... He said, "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated, we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne", and still after all of that, all of colonists' acts ...

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In the end with England's unnecessary taxations and act's of all verities would lead to the American Revolution, which would begin in April 1775. ... Looking at the Sugar act, which was created in 1763 by George Grenville who was appointed first minister, by King George III to solving England's debt crisis.# This act is the beginning of Britain's colonies, America to resist imperial control over them. The Sugar act reduced the sale of molasses to three pence per gallon and then it was further reduced to one penny per gallon in 1766, the act also added timber, iron and hides...

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Second, the American colonists were comprised of immigrants not only from Great Britain, but from all European nations as well. The colonists of other nationalities, quite obviously, felt no loyalty whatsoever to King George the Third, Parliament, or Britain. ... The French Bill of Rights proclaimed that every man, by birth, was entitled to certain rights independent of the government; it then reiterates these rights to all French citizens. ... Prior to the American Revolution, England had handled all colonial trade; their trading patterns were subject to British controls. ... Because ther...

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The "Stamp Act" of 1765 was a measure taken by the British whereby all legal documentation, newspapers, playing cards, licenses, commercial contracts, and things such as advertisement pamphlets issued throughout the colonies were, by law, required to follow the British example of sporting a revenue stamp. ... In Britain, however, taxes were traditionally seen as a way for the people to give back to the king and country and so the British were headstrong and pushing these acts. ... Britain, believing that the victory in the Seven Years" War was of benefit to all people of the Empire only though...

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The "Stamp Act" of 1765 was a measure taken by the British whereby all legal documentation, newspapers, playing cards, licenses, commercial contracts, and things such as advertisement pamphlets issued throughout the colonies were, by law, required to follow the British example of sporting a revenue stamp. ... In Britain, however, taxes were traditionally seen as a way for the people to give back to the king and country and so the British were headstrong and pushing these acts. ... Britain, believing that the victory in the Seven Years" War was of benefit to all people of the Empire only though...

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Not all of the people in the colonies wanted to separate from England. ... Colonies had governors who were appointed by the king and governing bodies elected by the people. ... Generally, violence is justified when two parties cannot reach a compromise and have used all possible methods to come to a reasonable agreement. ...

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Not all of the people in the colonies wanted to separate from England. ... Colonies had governors who were appointed by the king and governing bodies elected by the people. ... Generally, violence is justified when two parties cannot reach a compromise and have used all possible methods to come to a reasonable agreement. ...

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Smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria were all life-threatening diseases that made their way over to the New World. ... Although King James I considered smoking "a vile custom- and tobacco "a stinking weed,"" by 1620, England was importing more than 30,000 tons of tobacco a year (Benavides). ...

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