Declaration Of Independence Dbq

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Getting the colonial public to agree with departing from the mother country of britain was a conflicting issue. However, the colonies ended up declaring independence from britain on July 4, 1776. It would be appropriate to say that due to self-sustenance, acts passed by the British Parliament, and growing social tension, the colonies were rather justified in their Declaration of Independence. Due to the British motherland being overseas, and the trek to the colonies being long and hard, the colonies were rather isolated. This in turn, gave the colonies a need to create a government system of some sort in order to avoid total chaos and punish those who acted against the popular law. This is when city states such as Massachusetts started to …show more content…

These feats were done through the imposition of internal and external taxes. In the 1766 Examination of Benjamin Franklin before the House of commons, it was stated that “An external tax is a duty laid on commodities imported… If the people do not like it at that price they refuse it; they are not obligated to pay it. But an internal tax is forced from the people without their consent” (Document). This quote displays internal taxes having a negative connotation in the colonies and exemplifies the idea that the colonies had little representation in the parliamentary congress. As a result acts such as the Stamp Act of 1765, the Quartering Act, the Townshend Acts of 1767, the Tea Act of 1773, and the Intolerable acts were passed by the whim of the British government. The Stamp Act of 1765 made it so all american colonists had to pay a tax on all printed paper products they used. This encompassed many official documents. Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed a tax on glass, tea, and paper while permitting the search of private homes for smuggled goods and suspending New York’s assembly for the defiance against the Quartering Act, which forced colonists to house british soldiers. The Tea Act of 1773 allowed the British East India Company to have a monopoly on the revenue generated from the tea tax. The Intolerable Acts were aimed at …show more content…

The British authorities in the new world lashed out towards the colonists by A prime example colonists lashing out would be the Boston Tea Party, orchestrated by the Sons of Liberty, in response to the the Tea Act of 1773. The Tea Act of 1773 put a tax on all imported tea from the British motherland. Members of the Sons of Liberty boarded a British tea ship dressed at Mohawk Indians, as there was a British-Indian alliance, and threw 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. Thus the Boston Tea Party was born. One could say it was the strategy of these colonists that made their raid so successful. This is believable because it is states that the indians “who are with great reason suspected of being guilty of these horrid barbarities under the mask of friendship, have procured themselves to be taken under the protection of the government” in the Petition of the Paxton Boys to the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania in February 1764 (Document A). The colonials also created a colonial militia in backlash to presne of the British soldiers in the

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