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Political And Military Events That Caused The North American Revolution

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Storelee 1 Chrissy Storelee US History A Mr. Graff December 20 2017 Standard: Describe the political and military events that caused some North American colonies to break with Great Britain, wage war, and proclaim a new nation in 1776. “Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good” (Paine, Rights of Man). In 1607, 100 English colonists traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Chesapeake Bay in Jamestown, Virginia to settle in the glorious New World. This began what is now known as the colonization of America. Though being seemingly free from the religious restraints, overpopulation, and excessive crime, the colonists were still under Britain’s power. With many political conflicts and the military events between the ruling British monarch and the colonies of North America, the American settlers became rebellious and longed for independence. …show more content…

The Proclamation of 1763, the governmental enforcement of forbidding colonists to travel and settle west of the Appalachian Mountains, influenced Salutary Neglect; a time period when colonists developed their own beliefs. Additionally, Britain was able to pass any acts as seen fit under Parliamentary Sovereignty, after the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765, which taxed the purchase of goods by the colonists in order to assist Britain in their economical losses after the French and Indian War. The Intolerable Acts, passed by

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