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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies. July 4, 1776.
It is a juridical text. It talks about the rights of all free people thus constituting The United States of America. The Declaration of Independence was written Fourth of July, in 1776 in General Congress. The intention of the Declaration was a need to substitute the Confederate Legislation. It provided a foundation on whichlaws of local state governments could be formed.
With this, the States of America wanted to get the dissolution of its ties of the British crown after a revolution of American Colonies which led to a war caused by imposing indirect taxes that later would be removed, except the one on tea. The Tea Act gave the British East India Company a trade monopoly for tea, and the colonist suspected thatthe act was concealed bribe to oblige them to acknowledge Parliament`s right to tax them.
The signers were fifty-six and they represented the new states. Among them are John Hancock who was the president of the General Congress; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, signers and future presidents; Edward Rutledge, youngest signer with twenty-six years old; and Benjamin Franklin, the oldest signer withseventy.
In 1768 British army troops were sent to Boston to help officials enforce the Townshend Acts, a series of laws passed by the British Parliament. The purpose of the Townshend program was to make colonial governors and judges independent of colonial control, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, and to establish the controversial precedent thatParliament had the right to tax the colonies. Colonists objected that the Townshend Acts were a violation of the natural, charter, and constitutional rights of British subjects in the colonies. Boston merchants were annoyed about the new controls and helped organize a boycott of goods so Boston was a center of the resistance. Consequently, the British posted four regiments of troops in Boston tocontrol the boycott.
The Boston Massacre is considered one of most important events that turned colonial sentiment against King George III and British acts and taxes. Each of these events followed a pattern of Britain asserting its control, and the colonists' chafing under the increased regulation.
In 1773 a group of colonist decided to revolt against The Tea Act; because, although taxes wereremoved, the monopolistic East India Company controlled all the tea coming into the colonies, the only tax that was not removed. This incident became known as the Boston Tea Party.
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.
The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. The IntolerableActs or the Coercive Acts are a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress met at Philadelphia, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. All theColonies except Georgia were represented in that Congress. A committee was appointed to draw up a declaration of rights of the colonies. John Adams drew up that Declaration. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) or American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and...
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