THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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Were a series of acts imposed by the British on their North American colonies. They were to get the revenue needs to pay for the colonial royal governors and judges. The Boston Massacre was a result of these taxes.
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Met in response to the Intolerable Acts and involved 12 out of 13 colonies. They organized boycott and wrote the Declaration of Rights.
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a slogan that abridged the main complaint of the British North American colonies. They felt if Britain was going to tax them, the needed direct representation in Parliament r it denied their rights.
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A meeting held October 1765 in NYC with delegates from 9 out of the 13 colonies. There the Declaration of Rights was written and told the hat only colonies could tax themselves, they had the right to trail by jury, all Rights of Englishmen, and the Parliament could not tax the colonist.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stamp Act of 1765 (1765) The Stamp Act of 1765 was ratified by the British parliament under King George III. It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Stamp Act Congress (October 7 – 25, 1765), also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York, New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 was a meeting of delegates from nine American colonies who met to discuss the rights of the colonists regarding British taxation such as the Stamp Act. The colonists desired ‘no taxation without representation’ and responded to the Stamp Act with the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
Detailed explanation-4: -agreements among colonial merchants, the Stamp Act Congress was convened in New York (October 1765) by moderate representatives of nine colonies to frame resolutions of “rights and grievances” and to petition the king and Parliament for repeal of the objectionable measures.