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Salutary neglect

Salutary neglect

Salutary neglect was the British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep

the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. Prime Minister Robert Walpole stated that ³If no

restrictions were placed on the colonies, they would flourish. ́ This policy, which began in 1607 after the

founding of Jamestown, allowed the colonies to avoid obeying many laws and was lenient on the colonies

in enforcing many taxes and laws. Later, the British ended this policy through acts such as the Stamp Act

and Sugar Act, causing tensions within the colonies.

The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment is the era in Western philosophy and intellectual, scientific, and cultural life that

took place mostly in Europe in the early 1700¶s in which reason was advocated as the primary source for

legitimacy and authority.

The Enlightenment was less a set of ideas than it was a set of values. At its core was the idea of questioning

traditional institutions like government and religion, and a strong belief in rationality and science.

Enlightenment philosophers like John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire had a profound

influence on America¶s founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Paine, for example,

all read countless works and were persuaded to push for self-government.

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The French and Indain War

The French and Indian War was fought between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to

1763. In Canada, it is usually just referred to as the Seven Years' War. The war was fought primarily along

the frontiers between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia, and began with a dispute over the

site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The outcome was costly for all involved. France's colonial presence was reduced to just a few small islands,

confirming Britain's position as the dominant colonial power in the eastern half of North America. England,

however, had spent so much on the war that it began a period of high taxes on America, that would lead to

the Revolution.

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The Proclamation line of 1763

Proclamation of 1763

The Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's

acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. The purpose of

the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to help relations with

Native Americans by forbidding colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.

The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4,

1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now

independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas

Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare

independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American

Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is

celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress.

Decloration of indeipendence.

The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764. The act

was meant to ³defray the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the colonies. ́ The earlier

Molasses Act, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively

collected due to colonial evasion. By reducing the rate by half and increasing measures to enforce the tax,

the British hoped that the tax would actually be collected. These incidents increased the colonists' concerns

about the intent of the British Parliament and helped the growing movement that became the American

Revolution.

Sugar act

The Intolerable Acts were a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The acts triggered

outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies and were important developments in the growth of the

American Revolution. The acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773;

the British Parliament hoped these measures would make an example of Massachusetts and reduce protests.

Many colonists viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights, and in 1774 they organized the First

Continental Congress to coordinate a protest. As tensions escalated, the American Revolutionary War broke

out the following year.

Intolorebole acts

The Stamp Act of 1765 required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, almanacs, newspapers,

wills, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp. The act was enacted in

order to pay for a portion of the costs of maintaining an army in the territories gained in North America

during the French & Indian War. However, colonists protested that a tax laid upon them by a legislature in

which they were not represented violated the British constitutional right of no taxation without

representation. Colonial resistance to the act led to its repeal on March 18, 1766.

Stamp act

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a

group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident

remains an iconic event of American history. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement

throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.

Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated

their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives.

Boston Tea party

The Boston Massacre was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on

March 5, 1770. A heavy British military presence in Boston led to a tense situation that boiled over into

brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being

attacked by a rioting crowd. Three civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, eleven were injured,

and two died after the incident. The outcry over these deaths helped spark the rebellion in some of the

American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War.

Boston Massacre.

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