EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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work too hard
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follow unfair laws
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buy too much teach
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buy too many clothes
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Detailed explanation-1: -The English felt that the colonists should pay taxes because the English government was providing services that the colonists would otherwise have had to do without. The Americans felt the taxes were unfair because they were being imposed by a government in which the colonists had no “voice."
Detailed explanation-2: -By the 1770s, many colonists were angry because they did not have self-government. This meant that they could not govern themselves and make their own laws. They had to pay high taxes to the king. They felt that they were paying taxes to a government where they had no representation.
Detailed explanation-3: -American colonists responded to Parliament’s acts with organized protest. Throughout the colonies, a network of secret organizations known as the Sons of Liberty was created, aimed at intimidating the stamp agents who collected Parliament’s taxes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Farther north, in Plymouth, the colonists signed a compact agreeing to form a majority-rule government where all the men would vote on whatever issues came up. (Women didn’t get to vote in 1620.) Even so, the king still controlled the colonies, and the colonists had to follow England’s laws.