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salutary neglect was the brits patting their little american baby on the head and being like "okay sweetie, mommy is going to go talk to her friends and drink wine, you have fun, okay? don't get into too much trouble!" and then america being like "YAAAAAY YIPPEE FUN!!!!! NO ADULTS!!!!" (but seriously, it was the policy to basically turn a blind eye to whatever america wanted to do on its own time as long as it was doing well, allowing the colonies to govern themselves and basically do whatever.)

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how did salutary neglect lead to independence?

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how did salutary neglect lead to independence?

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salutary neglect was a really great thing for the colonies. it allowed for lots of growth in the small (and not-so-small) communities and caused bonds to form between the colonies. so when it was stripped away, they were....rightfully pissed. this leads to the desire for revolution, and the rest is, well, history!

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the french and indian war is a stupid and misleading name. the war was actually between britain and france, and the native americans were actually french allies. britain spent a boatload of money to keep the colonies safe from the french and their allies, and that meant once the war was over...

it was time to pay up.

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how did the french and indian war lead to independence?

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how did the french and indian war lead to independence?

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the french and indian war obviously cost britain a ton of money, which meant that they were now short on cash. this led to them needing to tax the american colonies to make up for it. that meant that salutary neglect was no longer in effect, and britain was now keeping an eye on america so that they don't revolt....(spoiler alert, they do).

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common sense was a pamphlet written by thomas paine about the way britain was treating the colonies and how it was unacceptable. he referred to britain as a monster. he talked about man's right to govern himself and how the colonies should not be controlled by one man who thinks he has everyone else's right.

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how did "common sense" lead to independence?

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how did "common sense" lead to independence?

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common sense kind of said what everyone was thinking. nobody was happy with britain taking so much control and taxing the colonies without representation, but they would never say so for fear of being attacked, of being taken down by the british. common sense put it into words, put it out there- made the american people realize that they could actually disagree with britain, that they could actually try to revolt.

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the stamp act was an act passed by parliament that put a tax on all paper documents, from newspapers to almanacs to playing cards. it even affected dice. people were required to have a stamp on their documents that said that they had paid the tax.

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how did the stamp act lead to independence?

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how did the stamp act lead to independence?

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the american people were furious that they had to pay more, especially due to a tax imposed on them by people who, up until then, had allowed them to set their own taxes. they organized the stamp act congress and decided that since they had not elected a representative to be in parliament and thus were not spoken for, they did not consent to and should not have been being taxed by the british government. this was what really started the anger in the colonies.

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the declaratory act was an act stating that britain had the right to create laws for any and all places underneath their jurisdiction without the need to represent them.

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how did the declaratory act lead to independence?

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how did the declaratory act lead to independence?

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the declaratory act made it clear that just because they repealed the stamp act did not mean that they were going to resume salutary neglect. in fact, with the declaratory act, they were basically saying "screw you, we're actually going to make MORE laws and taxes without your consent or representation".

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the townshend acts were several different acts that taxed several different things that were either hard or impossible to make in the colonies, such as glass, lead, paper, or tea.

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how did the townshend acts lead to independence?

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how did the townshend acts lead to independence?

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the townshend acts were infuriating for the colonies. they were another law by a government they weren't a part of that made them have to pay more money. they had been forced to pay for documents, forced to listen to some stupid king three thousand miles away, and now forced to pay for...well...everything?! yeah, this wasn't going to fly.

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the quartering act was an act passed by the british government requiring that the american people must keep a soldier in their homes if he was stationed in their town and had nowhere to go. it also forced the people in the colonies to have to live with british soldiers.

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how did the quartering act lead to independence?

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how did the quartering act lead to independence?

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the quartering act meaning they couldn't do or say anything against the british, not even in the safety of their own homes, because their homes were no longer safe.

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the boston massacre was an event occurring in boston on march 5 during a riot against the soldiers who guarded the customs house. rocks and snowballs were thrown, and then shots rang out, killing five civilians.

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how did the boston massacre lead to independence?

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how did the boston massacre lead to independence?

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the boston massacre instilled further anger into the hearts of the people. they had gone too far now- moved up from just passing acts that screwed with their lives to full-on killing, accidental or not. something had to be done about it.

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the tea act was an act passed by the british where they only allowed tea from the british east india company to be bought/sold.

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how did the tea act lead to independence?

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how did the tea act lead to independence?

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while it didn't upset the colonists exactly, and in fact helped them somewhat by making tea cheaper, they still refused to buy east india tea. it looked like they were giving in to the british. this act basically just hardened their resolve in the end.

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the boston tea party was a radical act done by the sons of liberty where they tossed roughly 46 tons of tea into the boston harbor as a way of protesting against the tea act.

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how did the boston tea party lead to independence?

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how did the boston tea party lead to independence?

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the boston tea party was the first really big thing that was donw to protest. sure, they tarred and feathered some guy, threw rocks at that other guy's house, held riots and whatnot, but this was the first huge thing. this, while causing the intolerable acts, was successful. and that was enough for the hellbent americans.

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the intolerable acts (formally known as the coercive acts) were acts passed to close off boston harbor until the tea was paid for, thus losing merchants and people goods and supplies.

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how did the intolerable acts lead to independence?

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how did the intolerable acts lead to independence?

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the intolerable acts pissed of what is now known as the most easily pissed of type of person- the bostonian....

but seriously, this infuriated the people in boston and probably those around boston as well, out of respect and in solidarity with the people living in boston suffering from the intolerable acts.