THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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restricting colonial trade with American Indians.
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imposing regulations on colonial agriculture.
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angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties were being violated.
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punishing colonists for resisting Parliament.
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Detailed explanation-1: -These acts restricted colonial trade with American Indians, imposed regulations on colonial agriculture, and angered colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated. The punishment for resisting the authority of Parliament was also increased as a result of these acts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Parliament passed the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765, to pay down a national debt approaching £140, 000, 000 after defeating France in the Seven Years War (1763). A year earlier, Parliament passed the Sugar Act, their first revenue-raising measure. Both taxes promised dire consequences in a post-war economy.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first act was the Sugar Act, which was passed in 1764. This placed a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies. This was a huge disruption to the Boston and New England economies because they used sugar and molasses to make rum, a main export in their trade with other countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sugar Act of 1764 levied a tax on lumber, rum, molasses, and other foodstuffs. The Sugar Act was not welcome in the colonies, but the Americans became further enraged by the addition of the Quartering Act of 1765.
Detailed explanation-5: -The goal of the act was to raise revenue for Britain to pay part of the cost of a standing army in North America. It began the controversy over Britain taxing the colonies when they had no representatives in Parliament-a direct cause of the American Revolution and the War for Independence.