Words to War
In the period after the French and Indian War it had become quite clear that the agendas of England and the American colonies had become severely different. It was in this time period that England greatly increased its focus on the colonies and began to, without knowing it, test the loyalty and patience of its colonies. England began to pass tariffs and tax laws that thoroughly enraged the colonists, who thought it wrong for the empire to all of a sudden take interest in them again. It became clear, after a very short period of parliament interfering with the colonies, that colonists angry words were on their way to becoming rebellious actions. It was also clear that not all of the colonists had the same goal in mind when it came to the idea of revolution. In 1765 parliament passed the Stamp Act, which put a tax on many everyday items. The Stamp Act was an internal tax that raised the cost of the goods in a way that made the colonists have to pay for it. Up until that time the colonists had seen many external taxes imposed, they were imposed in the form of tariffs used to regulate trade in the empire, but the merchants were the ones who had to pay for it. However, this new development infuriated the
It is quite easy to see that both the colonies and England were just as much affected as the other was by words and war. The colonies shared separate interests from place to place and wanted to see different things happen. The same was true for England. This was apparent with the outcome of Parliament imposing internal taxes on the colonies with the Stamp Act as well as the misrepresentation of the colonists' ideas to Parliament by Ben Franklin. Parliament finally realized that they could not enforce the Stamp Act and subsequently withdrew it. Many instances arose after the Stamp Act that followed in the same path as the previous acts. They enraged the colonists and Parliament had no choice but to chose a different means of approaching the situation. However in 1773, due to the passage of the Tea Act, the colonists finally let their words cross into forbidden territory when they went to far and staged the Boston Tea Party. Late at night on December 16 a group of colonists, known as the Sons of Liberty, dressed up as Native Americans boarded a cargo ship and dumped its entire load of 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor. This act bewildered as well as enraged Parliament and led to the ruining of any reconciliation between the colonies and the crown. A problem that arose quite often for the Continental Army was the fact that many of the farmers who joined up wanted to stay close to home so they could protect their land and take care
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Approximate Word count = 983
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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