American Colonies
The Colonies had very open societies, they needed more people to join so they could survive. This meaning, the Colonist were free to do as they please. No one lives around the colonist that can enforce law. The Colonist used their isolation as a tool since the British were not able to control them as well, the colonist could make their own laws, practice Religion freely and protest.
Many people were pushed from their home land because they had different religious views than the higher society. William Penn was Quaker that was persecuted in England for his religious beliefs. William Penn moved to Pennsylvania to start his own Quaker colony. Penn’s colony gave the people freedom of conscience and many
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more modern rights such as equal rights for women, different races and religious groups. Along with equal rights William Penn put a low tax on imports and on cider and liquor, Penn did this to attract new comers to make his ideas of freedom become well known. William Penn created the world’s first society with modern rights. The news of the new Colony Philadelphia, Pennsylvania spread like wild fire, people wanted to come to Pennsylvania to seek religious freedom and equal rights. William Penn influenced many others to seek freedom and equality they deserved. Without William Penn creating a modern equal society, Philadelphia would not be known as the city of brotherly love. Since the British where so far away from the colonist it was hard for them to enforce acts upon the colonist.
The colonist learned this when the British passed the Proclamation of 1763. This Act enforced colonist to stay east of the Appalachians. The Colonist realized that the British do not have enough money to punish them, they began to move westward. The Colonist liked to show how they disobeyed the British. Anytime the Colonist could break away from the English they took the chance so they could show their from of independence. The colonist expressed their independence by boycotting and riots. This got more people evolved, causing more people to express their freedom and Independence. The British could not handle all the resistance, because it makes them look weak losing to their own Colonies. The British losing to the Colonist makes them look weak, this embarrassment makes the Colonist look good and shows onlookers their defiant sense of …show more content…
independence. If the Colonist thought that an Act that the British passed was unfair they expressed their liberty.
When the British passed the Stamp Act many people disliked it. The act put an expensive tax on newspapers, liquor licenses, legal documents, calendars. almanacs, certificates, diplomas, contracts, wills, Bills of Sale and Licenses. This new Act effected all the colonist in negative ways, they could not afford the extra tax on objects they buy daily. The Colonist began to form violent protest against the people who enforced the Stamp Act upon them. On account of this was when New York distributor James McEvers wrote a letter to Andrew Oliver begging him to not shut his store down, “I have a large store of goods and seldom less than twenty-thousand pounds currency value in it with which the populace would make sad havoc.”(Libertarianism). In Rhode Island a mob burned down Augustus Johnson’s house and ransacked it. The colonist thought the people who enforced the Stamp Act in their Colony were weak-minded. The Colonist feared that they could lose their Freedoms, this is why they act in such violent ways. In October 1765, Twenty-seven men went to New York to protest the Stamp Act the Colonist express their independence non violently for the first
time. The Colonist expressed their Independence by shutting the British down and forming their own freedoms. Works Cited "The Royal Proclamation of 1763." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2016. Was, By The Time He. "William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace." The Religious Society of Friends. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2016. Https://www.facebook.com/george.h.smith.7. "The Sons of Liberty and Resistance to the Stamp Act, Part Two." Libertarianism.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2016. /.latest_citation_text
I believe colonial New England had more of an effect on the American character than Virginia for several reasons. First they promoted more of the values that have transcended into modern day America such as religious toleration, their educational ideas and their focus on the importance of family. And we shouldn’t forget the fact that the American Revolution began in New England so in essence the America we know today would not exist without New England.
When the British passed the Stamp Act, the colonists reacted in various ways. The Stamp Act, passed in 1765, put taxes on all printed goods in the colonies. Specifically, newspapers, legal documents, dice,
In the early stages of North American colonization by the English, the colony of Jamestown, Virginia was founded in 1607 (Mailer Handout 1 (6)). Soon after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1629 (Mailer Handout 2 (1)). These two colonies, although close in the time they were founded, have many differences in aspects of their lives and the way they were settled. The colonies have a different religious system, economic system, political system, and they have a different way of doing things; whether that be pertaining to making money, practicing religion, or electing governors. Along with the differences, there are also a sameness between these two colonies. Each colony has been derived from England and has been founded by companies
Before Great Britain became more active in the colonies, they had been independent and established representative assemblies and a form of self-government. As the British tried to tax them to gain revenues, they were only angered by the lack of representation they had in the decision. No taxation became the symbol for democracy throughout the fighting of all the acts imposed, and the same idea would drive the colonists to revolt against the British and gain their independence.
Q 1. The American colonies were divided into three distinct regions and these regions were different from each other in their origins, populations, economics and agriculture, religious makeup, and connection to England .write an essay comparing and contrasting the New England, middle, and southern colonies with specific examples.
There were a myriad of differences between Great Britain and her American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but these differences can be divided into three basic categories: economic, social, and political. The original American settlers came to the colonies for varied reasons, but a common trait among these settlers was that they still considered themselves British subjects. However, as time passed, the colonists grew disenfranchised from England. Separated from the king by three thousand miles and living in a primitive environment where obtaining simple necessities was a struggle, pragmatism became the common thread throughout all daily life in the colonies. It was this pragmatism that led the colonists to create their own society with a unique culture and system of economics and politics.
During the 1700s, Britain ruled over the colonies. The colonies had been discovered and settled by the British. The British believed that the colonies were British territories and were to be ruled as if they were British territories. The colonies did not like this. The Founding Fathers agreed that it was time for a change and sought to rebel from, and declare independence from the British. The Founding Fathers were justified in rebelling and declaring independence because the British rule had become oppressive, Britain was too small and too far away from the colonies to be in any position to rule over them, and the colonies had become large enough to become their own nation.
The American colonists’ disagreements with British policymakers lead to the colonist’s belief that the policies imposed on them violated of their constitutional rights and their colonial charters. These policies that were imposed on the colonist came with outcome like established new boundaries, new internal and external taxes, unnecessary and cruel punishment, and taxation without representation. British policymakers enforcing Acts of Parliament, or policies, that ultimately lead in the colonist civil unrest, outbreak of hostilities, and the colonist prepared to declare their independence.
So the government decided to place taxes in. The Stamp Act was taxes, the Stamp Act it states, “Right and Power to lay Taxes and Impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony.” It was hard for the merchant to trade because they had to pay taxes to people. In Zinn it said that merchants helped start a protest against the stamp act, “A political group in Boston called the Loyal Nine-merchants, distillers, shipowners, and master craftsmen who opposed the Stamp Act-organized a procession in August 1765 to protest it.” This shows that they didn’t like being tax. In “We are equally Free,” in said “Two years earlier, some merchants had organized boycotts against certain products imported from Great Britain (a strategy known as nonimportation) to resist British taxation measures aimed at the rebellious Americans.” As shown by this tried to protest
(140) It was during this time period that “the government in London concerned itself with the colonies in unprecedented ways…to help raise funds to pay for the war and finance the empire.” (Forner 141) The British government was heavily in debt after fighting the Seven Years War on several fronts. The need to raise funds was paramount and the colonies were a ready source. The British government started imposing taxes on the colonies as a means of income. This was a change in the relationship between America and the mother country. Many Americans opposed these taxes. (Forner 142- 143) According to Forner, “Opposition to the Stamp Act was the first great Drama of the revolutionary era and the first major split between the colonist and Great Britain over the meaning of freedom.” (142) This act was eventually repealed by Parliament in 1766 after great opposition by Americans. (Forner 144) The Stamp Act was just the beginning of several events and taxes on the colonist leading up the Boston Tea
A new era was dawning on the American colonies and its mother country Britain, an era of revolution. The American colonists were subjected to many cruel acts of the British Parliament in order to benefit England itself. These British policies were forcing the Americans to rebellious feelings as their rights were constantly being violated by the British Crown. The colonies wanted to have an independent government and economy so they could create their own laws and stipulations. The British imperial policies affected the colonies economic, political, and geographic situation which intensified colonists’ resistance to British rule and intensified commitment to their republican values.
By the time of the late 18th century, the colonies had grown socially, culturally, economically, and politically setting the mood for a majority of the colonists to want to break ties with the mother country. The colonies were well established, growing rapidly with new settlers arriving, and had begun to interact and socialize with not only each other, but also the Indians and the French, with whom they shared the new lands. (Devore, Lecture # 3.) These newfound social and cultural interactions allowed the colonies to grow economically giving the colonists a sense of importance. The lack of recognition by parliament started to plant the seeds for the revolution.
The war had been enormously expensive, and the British government’s attempts to impose taxes on colonists to help cover these expenses resulted in chaos. English leaders, were not satisfied with the financial and military help they had received from the colonists during the war. In a desperate attempt to gain control over the colonies as well as the additional revenue to pay off the war debt, Britain began to force taxes on the colonies. Which resulted in The Stamp Act, passed by parliament and signed by the king in March 1765. The Stamp Act created an excise tax on legal documents, custom papers, newspapers, almanacs, college diplomas, playing cards, and even dice. Obviously the colonist resented the Stamp Act and the assumption that parliament could tax them whenever and however they could without their direct representation in parliament. Most colonials believed that taxation without their consent was a violation of their constitutional rights as Englishmen. Which is where the slogan “No Taxation without Representation” comes
Colonists were able to create their own governments that became more democratic and representative. Free white men had a voice of opinion within local assemblies and could vote and hold office. They also created a capitalist economy to a certain degree where companies were competing with one another to find resources and wealth. In addition, the British colonies were unique because of the Great Awakening and how the ideas derived from that movement helped create some unity throughout America. The spread of religious freedom in the middle and southern colonies also made the colonies different to a certain degree. Most importantly, there were more opportunities for people to improve their lives and social
For the colonists, the new world was a place to be free, not restricted under someone else's reign. Their uprising sense of gaining freedom from the strongest country in the world at that time, gave them the ownership over their minds. They were not the British people, but the American people. This ownership took over many, building their motivation to fight;and with this motivational boost, colonists could hypothesize a successful win against the British. Their new sense of self developed the colonists from tiny powerless colonists, to strong and confident soldiers, fighting against the strongest country in the world. This development gave the colonists victories, eventually winning their independence. Owning their identity as the free, American people has led the colonists to confident victories that brought better