Life In America After King George III

Week two Reflection Journal This week in reading leads me to many areas of interest. However, I would like to talk about early America when England, under King George III, dictated much of what we know as America today. Reflecting on my past understanding of American history, I remember wondering “what interest did the French have in our country at this time of the American Revolution?” After studying the events leading up to the colonies rebelling against King George III, I can clearly see what America is founded upon. Furthermore, I can see God’s hand in the forging of what we know now as “America the free.” Life in America after King George III took the throne in 1760 must have been oppressive. I say this as I reflect on the different “acts” the

The colonists felt that if they did not fight the stamp act, this could in fact open the door for much worse taxation efforts in the future. It was not until the Virginia House of Burgesses adopted Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves. This brought about taxation without their own representatives present when the tax was enacted. What is worse is that any colonists that were found not abiding to the Stamp Act, were able to be convicted without juries in the vice admiralty courts (Stamp Act, History.com). There was an instance where the colonists acted on their own accord. A group of colonists called themselves Sons of Liberty, enlisted a mob that paraded the streets with a sculpture of Andrew Oliver, which was Boston’s stamp distributor, beheading the sculpture and hanging it from the Liberty Tree, then proceeded to raid Oliver’s home. After such a raid from the sons of Liberty, Oliver of course agreed to resign as the stamp distributor. This act from the Sons of Liberty caused other colonial towns to act similarly by mobbing the stamp distributors in their towns until all distributors as well as the British Parliament had resigned their efforts to collect the taxes under the Stamp Act in