EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Suspended their parliament
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Suspended their legislatures
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All of the Above
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None of the Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -King George III imposed a tax on official documents in American colonies. Included under the act were bonds, licenses, certificates, and other official documents as well as more mundane items such as plain parchment and playing cards.
Detailed explanation-2: -The three main themes of the colonists’ complaints are individual rights, representation, and taxation. Individual rights are rights guaranteed to people. Representation in the English Parliament was important to the colonists, and the colonists believed that taxation without representation was wrong.
Detailed explanation-3: -Within the Declaration of Independence is a list of grievances that Jefferson believed the King of Great Britain, George III, had committed against the Colonists. These grievances outlined the main reasons behind why the Colonists had gone to war during the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -65. King George III was the King of England who disbanded the colonial legislatures, taxed the colonies, and refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies.