EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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They wanted the colonists to come back to Britain. b. They wanted to make the colonists angry..
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They wanted to make the colonists angry.
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They were afraid that the colonists were becoming too powerful.
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They were deep in debt because of a war they had won against France.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The British needed to station a large army in North America as a consequence and on 22 March 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765.
Detailed explanation-3: -The reason why Parliament started taxing the colonists was because of the war debt resulting from the French and Indian War. The first tax, the tax on sugar, was imposed on the colonists to help pay off the debt.
Detailed explanation-4: -The costs of fighting a protracted war on several continents meant Britain’s national debt almost doubled from 1756 to 1763, and this financial pressure which Britain tried to alleviate through new taxation in the Thirteen Colonies helped cause the American Revolution.