PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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The Indians believed the colonists would return seized lands to them.
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The British were able to defeat the French in North America, Asia, and at sea.
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The high cost of the war meant Parliament had to create new taxes in the American colonies to pay off war debts.
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The French were never truly expelled and played a large role in stirring-up colonial discontent.
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Detailed explanation-1: -by increasing conflict between the colonists and neighboring Indian tribes. The French-Indian/Seven Years War is often viewed by historians as being a factor in causing the American Revolution. Which of these BEST explains why this might be the case? The Indians believed the colonists would return seized lands to them.
Detailed explanation-2: -What was the main cause of the French and Indian War? The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Taxation Acts, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts were the four main causes that lead to the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War (1754–63).
Detailed explanation-5: -The Act resulted in violent protests in America and the colonists argued that there should be “No Taxation without Representation” and that it went against the British constitution to be forced to pay a tax to which they had not agreed through representation in Parliament.