... call our selves a democracy today if not for the battles we had won in the past. When people think of what event in American history has had the greatest impact on our country, it is without question that the American Revolution. A war to become our own nation, a war to break away from a mother country whose government was out to smuggle the new colonies ... crown, increasing the duties on good imported to America that were not of British origin (American Rev. 1). Britain followed the Sugar Act with the Currency Act. This denied the colonies to print their own currency, which brought ab...

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