Disparity Between The Colonies In The 1600s

The mid 1600s onwards was a time of great disparity between the colonies and Great Britain with an overriding theme of conflict. At the time, a message took at least six weeks to sail across the Atlantic to and from the colonies and England, and the colonists were pretty dependent on English goods for survival. Beginning in the mid 1600s the colonists endured changes such as the Great Awakening religious movement and the Enlightenment intellectual movement. Both of these movements along with with Benign neglect from Great Britain in which the English turned a blind eye to smuggling and bribery among the colonists and created an unsettled society that would eventually rebel. At the end of the French and Indian War however, the colonists were

The British’s debt forced them into a position to impose large taxes on the colonists but much to the colonists discontent. Beginning with the Stamp and Sugar acts which were taxes put on by the British government. The stamp act taxed any paper product; for example, letters, certificates, or any printed material were colonists were required to pay a tax on, which hurt business owners. The sugar act was a tax put on any sugar that was sent to the colonies. These taxes greatly angered the colonists and their frustrations derived from the idea of “no taxation without representation.” This phrase describes the colonists contentions that they should not be taxed unless they have representatives in Parliament. They felt they should be able to have a say in what they were being taxed for. The stamp act was eventually repealed by the government because of the giant uproar it created in the colonies. There were many people who tried to avoid paying the stamp act taxes while they were in place, so the British assigned people to monitor this. Many of these monitors were killed because the public

They were a series of four acts enacted by the British Parliament on the colonists and one on Quebec. The colonists finally decided to take legal action and organized a meeting amongst the colonists that defined the American grievances, developed a plan for resistance and articulated a constitutional relationship with Britain. The First Continental Congress tries to define the legal relation between the colonies and Britain. The goal of the Continental associations were to create a de facto government. If a person in the congress takes care of the smaller issues then when there is a bigger issue, the population will stand behind them because of the previous aid. They also laid the groundwork for an insurgency. Moving forward, the British military heard that the colonists were stockpiling weapons. They went into the area looking for the stockpile, but they were not able to find anything. On their way back to boston, they were ambushed by the colonists as they stayed in their nice neat rows. The Americans considered this event called the Lexington Concord the first win. The colonies under the Second Continental Congress Decide to build an army and appoint an officer, George Washington, who opens foreign associations to get allies and begins to print money. After questioning Parliaments power, the colonists gain confidence in their