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After the Seven Year's War (1756-1763), tensions between the American colonies and the British escalated as the British no longer followed the concept of salutary neglect and tried in many different ways to impose their imperialist ideals onto the colonies. The colonies disliked this idea to a great extent, not supporting the idea that the British should have control over the colonies. Certain acts such as the Townshend Acts in 1767, which were taxes on paper, lead, paint, and tea, and the Coercive Acts of 1774, the acts enacted by the British to punish the colonies for the event known as the Boston Tea Party of 1773, a act of retaliation of the colonies against the British due to the idea of "no taxation without representation". After the …show more content…

For example, conflicts between the rich and the poor, which have always existed throughout time in every country, still continued to exist in America after the American Revolution. As seen in the text on page 80, "In the midst of the war, in Philadelphia, which Eric Foner describes as ' a time of immense profits for some colonists and terrible hardships for others,' the inflation … led to agitation and calls for action." Some of these calls for actions are known as the Fort Wilson Riot of 1779 and the mutinies in Morristown New Jersey, Trenton New Jersey, and Philadelphia. All of these different riots led to Shays' Rebellion, an event where a small farmer named Daniel Shays believed that he was being taxed unfairly by the government; therefore, he got together a bunch of men and petitioned the government to change or at least solve the farmers' needs. This rebellion was not something to be taken lightly, there were numerous deaths concerning the farmers involved. This event, along with the many before it, show that conflicts between the rich and the poor have always existed, and also show another consistency, as stated on page 80, "It seemed that the majority of white colonists, who had a bit of land, or had no property at all, were still better off than the slaves or indentured servants or Indians, and could be wooed into the coalition of the Revolution." The evidence, paired with this evidence on page 84, "Looking at the situation after the Revolution, Richard Morris comments: 'Everywhere one finds inequality.' He finds 'the people' of 'We the people of the United States'...did not mean Indians or blacks or women or white servants.", suggests that white males, their economic standing be what it may, were always higher in economic standing compared to slaves, indentured servants, and Native

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The colonists are eneng more enraged. They have rebellious parades andgatherings to protest. Meanwhile, Britain is angry at the colonists, so to punish them, they keepthe Townshend act until the protests get extremely out of hand. The colonists continue to use theslogan “taxation without representation” frequently to show their anger for Britain. The nextevent, the Boston Tea Party, is also caused by unfair taxation.

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