.# Laws were also passed which increased power to the Vice-admiralty courts, which lacked a jury to make convictions easier to be given out for smuggling.# Also the Royal Navy was given the power to use writs of assistance, which is the same as search warrants and they could inspect any ship they wanted.# With all these added laws it was thought that the American merchants would just pay the tax's and the laws themselves would deter them form smuggling, but in fact the American's Protested and send petitions to England about these so-called fare laws. The Stamp Act which was ...

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We are taught to view the war as a Revolution, a fight for freedom, liberty and the right to own property, a fight that would, in the end, be beneficial to every American. ... There are countless stories told of fathers who would have one son in one army and another in the opposing camp in an effort to play both sides and keep his property no matter what the outcome of the war. ... The Loyalists returned the treatment whenever possible, and paid them back with interest, and passed information to the British about the rebels. ... Although it was specifically stated in the Treaty of Paris that ...

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We are taught to view the war as a Revolution, a fight for freedom, liberty and the right to own property, a fight that would, in the end, be beneficial to every American. ... There are countless stories told of fathers who would have one son in one army and another in the opposing camp in an effort to play both sides and keep his property no matter what the outcome of the war. ... The Loyalists returned the treatment whenever possible, and paid them back with interest, and passed information to the British about the rebels. ... Although it was specifically stated in the Treaty of Paris that ...

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Two years later, the British pass yet another new tax on the colonies; the Townshend revenue tax. ... This made the British very angry however, and in retaliation, passed the Coercive Acts. ... 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 ...

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But this idea conflicted with the English principle of "virtual representation," according to which each member of Parliament represented the interests of the whole country, even the empire, despite the fact that his electoral base consisted of only a tiny minority of property owners from a given district. The rest of the community was seen to be "represented" on the ground that all inhabitants shared the same interests as the property owners who elected members of Parliament. ... After that, Britain again passed yet another act. ... They also passed a Quartering Act, in order to house soldier...

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Most of England's citizens did not own property whereas the land that an individual worked on in America usually belonged to them. ... Samuel Adams wrote in 1772 that, "while their property shall be disposed of by a House of Commons at three thousand miles' distance from them, and who cannot be supposed to have the least care or concern for their real interest; who have not only no natural care for their interest, but must be in effect bribed against it, as every burden they lay on the Colonists is so much saved or gained to themselves", [Ada72]. This quote illustrates that...

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This group of people were moved from different places, bought and sold, and were considered "property " during those years. ... The fact that they were slaves meant that they were the "property " of the slave owners and they had a lesser standing when compared to the whites in the colony. ... There was in fact a trend in the lineage of both groups; trends that were actually passed down from generation to generation. ... As Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence which talked about freedoms, he owned two hundred and two human beings as his personal property. ...

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He also organized the Committees of Correspondence, whose chief functions were to spread propaganda, and pass information between the colonies in order to keep a constant opposition to the British. ... Using his level headed thinking, Jefferson explained to the English the reasons for which Independence was being declared, and he also ensured every American of simple, unalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and property. ... This was mostly payback for the destruction of English property, chests of tea thrown in Boston harbor. ...

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The Northern states also started to abolish slavery and they passed several laws for freeing slaves. ... Connecticut authorities started to pass laws which destabilized the institution during the Revolution. ... Later, more and more laws were passed to protect from slave trade that toughened penalties on slaves' catchers. ... In 1780, Pennsylvania passed a gradual emancipation law then Connecticut and Rhode Island followed suit in 1784. ... Southern blacks were also considered as property. ...

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In 1764, Britain passed a law known as the Currency Act, preventing the colonies to print and use their own money. ... The Townshend Act passed in 1767, authorized the Parliament to issue taxes on in demand imports such as glass, lead, paint, paper and tea. ... With the situation intensifying after a series of acts were passed, violent riots began to break out in major cities such as Boston. ... The first major breaking point was in 1773, when the British passed a Tea Act attempting to help the East India Company from their almost non-existent sales of their teas. ... In an effort to hide the...

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The stamp act which was passed by the parliament was used to help pay for the cost of British war. ... In an effort to continuously assert their power in the colonies, Britain passed the Townshend Acts. ... As the story was passed throughout the colonies, the story became a sort of propaganda to turn Americans against Britain. ... "(Louis) Britain was threatening the colonist's liberties, and was also threatening their private property. ...

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Congress was unable to comply with states to repay pre-war debts to British citizens and allow Loyalists to recover confiscated property. ... Also the Northwest and Land Ordinances were passed under this government. ...

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After the stamp act was passed many more taxes were imposed including the townshend act, imposing taxes on imported goods and the sugar act, imposing taxes on sugar. ... John Locke, an English philosopher from the Enlightenment era, stated that all citizens were entitled at birth to life, liberty and property. ...

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There were many similarities between the causes of the American Revolution in 1776 and the Latin American Wars of Independence beginning in 1810. The main similarities between the two independence movements are essentially economical, political, and ideological. Both the United States and Latin Ame...

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