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In the seventeenth century Indentured Servitude was seen less as a racial issue and more of a way for early English settlers to be able to boost economic growth. One main job given to these servants was the harvest of there owners cash crops. One popular crop today was not always popular. A man by the name of John Rolfe was one of the first American farmers to become successful in growing tobacco. Many of the cash crops as well as servants were transported through the ports, and traded with he Europeans. All of the trade gave lots of opportunity’s for for European diseases to plague the New country of America. 

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In the seventeenth century Indentured Servitude was seen less as a racial issue and more of a way for early English settlers to be able to boost economic growth. One main job given to these servants was the harvest of there owners cash crops. One popular crop today was not always popular. A man by the name of John Rolfe was one of the first American farmers to become successful in growing tobacco. Many of the cash crops as well as servants were transported through the ports, and traded with he Europeans. All of the trade gave lots of opportunity’s for for European diseases to plague the New country of America. 

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Group 2: The Boston Massacre was a product of the tension grown between colonists and Britain through the various acts placed by Parliament. The Boston Massacre just fueled the raging fire within colonists, after the death and injury of some. A group of activists called the Sons of Liberty rebelled against Parliament’s Townsend Acts in an event known as the Boston Tea Party where Bostonians dressed as Indians dumped hundreds of boxes of tea into Boston Harbor. A livid Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party with the Intolerable Acts that closed Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party was one of the events that increased the colonists willingness to rebel against the Crown. The colonies had various battles with Britain when they extended the Olive Branch Petition, a last resort plea to the Crown, pledging their allegiance, but it rather became th official beginning of the Revolutionary War. With the colonists’ victory of the Revolutionary War, an idea of Republican Motherhood emerged, bringing forth new role of women to raise children to be good republicans.

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Topic Sentence:
The American Revolution was a product of toil and tension built up between the British and their colonies, leading to many conflicts on American turf such as The Boston Tea Party and The Boston Massacre.

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The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 when shots were fired between colonists and British soldiers. The shots fired here broke the tension between the King and his subjects in the colonies. As a result of the skirmish that broke out in Boston, the King decided to pass the Tea Act which taxed the tea that the colonists were required to buy from Britain. The colonists were absolutely outraged and felt the desire to voice their anger. Led by The Sons of Liberty, a group of men who would later be huge advocates for the Revolution, a group of colonists went to Boston Harbor and dumped hundreds of crates of tea into the water. By performing this act of rebellion, the colonists hoped to gain some freedoms and prove to the King that they were not happy about the Tea Act and other taxes that had been passed. The King and Parliament were furious about the Boston Tea Party, so they did the only logical thing, and passed more taxes. This group of taxes was dubbed the Intolerable Acts by the colonists. It permitted British soldiers to live in colonists’ homes, Boston Harbor was closed, and military governor’s powers were increased. Over the course of several more months a few minor battles were fought, such as Lexington and Concord, but war had still not been declared. The colonists grew weary and tried to take one last shot at making peace with their mother country. In The Olive Branch Petition the colonists pleaded with King George III, telling him how much they adored him and how they wanted just a little more freedom, but wanted to remain his colonies. King George III decided he had had enough, and chose to ignore the Petition. In the midst of preparing for war, women rose up and became very significant to the cause of American Independence. Republican Motherhood was the idea that women had an impact in the war by doing things like making clothes and manufacturing raw goods to help the cause of boycotting British goods. The Daughters of Liberty are an excellent example of how women worked to help win the war even if they were not always on the battlefield.

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Following the end of the French and Indian War, the British Colonies began to simmer after Britain tightened their grip on the colonists with taxes and acts, such as the Intolerable Acts in 1774.

Tensions rose throughout the colonies, especially in Boston, Massachusetts. It became the center of attention following the Boston Massacre. The massacre angered the colonists and brought them closer together through a common enemy. Groups like the Sons of Liberty went a long way to turn the rest of the public against British Parliament through radical acts of protest, such as the Boston Tea Party. King George III was furious and passed the Intolerable acts, or Coercive Acts, to make an example of Boston, but it actually united the colonies even more.  The media and newspapers in the colonies continued to fan the flame of freedom within the hearts and minds of the people. Ideals such as Republican Motherhood arose to give examples of how we should fight for this new country some sought after. However, the 2nd Continental Congress made one last attempt to avoid starting a full fledged war with Great Britain through the Olive Branch Petition. The King ignored the last cry for a resolution from the colonies, so the Revolution was then among the colonists.

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Crossing the threshold, the colonist were preparing for a revolution against King George the Third who propelled the colonists into a rebellious act after having Parliament pass the Intolerable Acts changing the values in America.

The colonist’s immediate reaction to the Intolerable Acts was the Boston Tea Party, colonists invaded the Boston Harbor and deposited millions of dollars worth of English tea into the harbor. The lionhearted colonists then composed a sophisticated group called the Sons of Liberty in order to rationally address this situation. This sensible group of men wrote a complimenting petition, the Olive Branch petition, to King George the Third in order to soothe any friction between the colonies and England. Coincidentally, the colonists used propaganda on turn something minor into something major during the Boston Massacre, which caused the British soldiers to be accused of murder and manslaughter. The colonists further pressed for a revolution and proceeded to defeat the Great Britain and announced their independence in 1776, during this revolution the attitude toward women’s roles began to appear as the value of “Republican Motherhood” increased. The evolution of America’s values were strategically defined through the complex system of effective actions within it’s history.

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Though King George III felt he was doing what was best for his country and the colonies, the colonists were hostile due to the virtual representation in the colonies; the unbearable laws Parliament passed drove colonists’ for independence.

Following the French and Indian War, Britain was drowning in debt, and Parliament's solution to refinance its country would be an end to Britain’s world-dominance. A series of taxes were published on the colonies in an attempt for Britain to dig their way out of debt. These acts included the Sugar Act of 1764 taxing molasses, the Quartering Act of 1765 forcing colonists to share their homes with British soldiers in the colonies, and the Stamp Act of 1765 which taxed stamps that were needed on any published papers. The Radical Whigs encouraged the colonists to be stubborn and boycott these taxes because of the unfairness of them. Colonists felt they were being treated inferior to Britain and clearly displayed their anger. The colonists proceeded to boycott goods, form revolts, and create groups determined to resolve these acts such as the Boston Tea Party. Britain repealed these acts, so the colonists felt like they were successful from their stubbornness. However, the Declaratory Acts were published soon after, establishing that the King can pass and acts or taxes he pleases. The Townshend Program was then published, taxing necessities for survival in the colonies such as glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea. The Townshend Program forced the colonies to buy these goods that were taxed because they needed these goods to survive, and they were brought in British ports, so there was no way around them. Though there were formal documents written by colonists asking King George III for less taxes, such as the Olive Branch Petition, they were rejected insincerely by the King. The colonists felt there were no other option than to fight for independence.

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With the end of the French and Indian War, came the end of salutary neglect with the colonists, as England needed to pay off their debt from the war, which brought about increased tension between Great Britain and the colonies.

Colonists were upset with their freedom being taken away, which led to the emergence of groups like the Sons of Liberty, to fight this new control by Britain. They protested the taxation, in the form of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, which ultimately led to more tension, as this caused the Intolerable Acts to be passed by Britain. After this, many colonists were against Great Britain, as they believed they were being treated unfairly, but as a last effort to avoid war with England, they created the Olive Branch Petition, in which they pledged their loyalty to the King, and asked for their colonial rights to be protected. However, this was not accepted by the Crown, which started the Revolutionary War. With this came many emerging ideas that would begin to shape the United States, such as Republican Motherhood, which gave women an increased role in education, by having them be the idea of republican virtue, and leading this idea in the family, which ultimately helped the survival of the United States, as it spread throughout the new nation.

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During the early 1770s,  colonists were angered by the taxes the British Parliament placed on goods in the colonies after the French and Indian War. This caused colonists to rebel against Parliament and led to rebellious events like the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre.

A group of men and women, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, were agitated with the taxes created by Parliament. The Sons of Liberty started riots that caused Britain to repeal the Stamp Act. However, several years later the colonists were still unhappy with the taxes that they rebelled against the Parliament, this led to the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party.  England was infuriated after these events that Parliament created the Intolerable Acts and placed them on the colonists. The Intolerable Acts were in place as a punishment for the rebellious nature in Boston. In 1775 the Second Continental Congress drafted the Olive Branch Petition. The petition was drafted as a way to show King George III the colonies apology for their lack of loyalty to the King. The Olive Branch Petition was declined and a year later the idea of republican motherhood was introduced into the colonies. This idea allowed women to become educated so that they could have a voice in what they wanted in the government. This was important because women were raising the future children who would have a say in the government. While the colonies tried to unite themselves back to England after the rebellious events in Boston, they were unsuccessful and gained independence in 1776.

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While many of the colonists disagreed with the idea of rebellion, the rebellious thoughts that fueled the Sons of Liberty were first planted in the colonists’ minds with England’s response to the events in Boston during the early 1770s.

When Parliament began passing tax after tax to gain enough revenue from colonies to pay debts from the French and Indian War debts, a notable group of men (and women) began to toy with the idea of rebelling. The Sons of Liberty, as they were called, were a minority group in this belief; however after the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party colonists really began to play around with the rebellious ideas. Colonists began to fully understand and realize the brashness of their mother country as The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish Boston for their rebellious nature. The idea of republican motherhood spread its way across the colonies and the colonies began to unite themselves together, creating the Second Continental Congress and drafting the Olive Branch Petition. Although the events in Boston helped unite the men under the branches of rebellious ideas, the women also began to get united underneath these same branches with their fortress of republican motherhood leading the way into the unknown waters of revolution.

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During the 18th century, colonists felt that they were not being adequately represented in parliament during and after several controlling acts were passed by the British crown; thus the fight for colonial independence appeared more vital than ever to the colonists.

Radical whigs advised colonists to be on guard against any threat to their rights. Subsequent to the French and Indian War, Great Britain past several acts including the following: the Sugar Act of 1764, an internal revenue tax on sugar imports, the Quartering Act of 1765, a law requiring colonies to provide food and quarters to British soldiers, and the Stamp Act, an external tax on anything made of paper. These acts concerned the colonists about their rights and thus started colonial protests and riots. Britain responded to the colonists’s protesting and rioting by placing the Declaratory Act and the Townshend Program which specifically established their control over the colonists. Livid and feeling betrayed, the colonists concluded that they lacked virtual representation and were taxed without proper representation; therefore furthered their ambitions to claim independence.

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The idea of a revolution was present only in the mind of the English king George III, but after the grievances continued, the colonies became a warfront fighting over a difference of ideologies.

Following the war debt acquired from the French and Indian War, England attempted to repay their debt by taking money from the colonists they were attempting to protect. Parliament began to tax the colonists with the goal of paying for their assistance in their fight against the Indians. Colonists felt that parliament was attacking their way of life. Colonists began to protest after the addition of the Stamp Act. This act united ardent spirits to come together and violently protest, one group, the Sons of Liberty enforced the nonimportation agreements and refused the use of stamps. Follow the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts were introduced. The acts presented an import tax on practical items within the colonies. After the British saw the loopholes colonists took to bypass this tax, Britain sent over two regiments of troops. Colonists, angered by the presence of the troops, took to a protest. The protest escalated while nervous troops fired into the crowd killing and wounding eleven citizens. This event went down as the Boston Massacre. Still angered by the tax on tea brought from the Townshend Acts, and the monopolization of the colonial tea business by the East India Company, the Sons of Liberty took matters into their own hands. Angry colonists boarded the docked tea ships and threw 342 chests worth of tea into the Atlantic. Parliament, in response to the Boston Tea Party introduced the Intolerable Acts. These acts limited Massachusetts’s chartered rights. Thrown right into the start of a rebellion and revolution the colonists saw a problem at hand. Trying to save the colonists from more bloodshed, the Second Continental Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition over to King George III. The petition professed American loyalty to the crown and begged for an end to hostilities. George, still enraged by the many insults brought from the colonies, proclaimed the colonies were in rebellion and denied the petition. The Revolutionary War brought new ideologies and ways of thinking to our culture, and promoted Republican Motherhood, or the belief that women, as moms, were responsible for sharing the republican ideals, and being educated enough to do so.

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On the heels of a monumental revolution, the young America required strong leaders, intelligent and efficient legislature, and compromise to hold together the states in union.

In order for the new nation to stay above anarchy, a fast, binding constitution was required. The 2nd Continental Congress, an assembly of strong leaders, elected a committee led by the revolutionary hero George Washington to draft the Articles of Confederation. This written constitution was barely adequate, and only kept the nation unified with help from other farsighted and efficient pieces of legislature, such as the NW Land Ordinance, which smoothly guided frontiersmanship, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which affect our handling of immigrants to this day. A new and improved constitution would soon be required to bind the states into a confederation. Another constitution was drafted under the influence of great decision-makers and perspective altering acts, such as Shays’s Rebellion which caused anti-mob rule thinking to shape parts of the new government. With help of Federalists such as the charismatic Alexander Hamilton, The Constitution was ratified in every state and still is in effect today.

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Around 1774, American colonists felt that Britain held themselves higher than the colonies, and that the colonists were being treated unfairly.

In 1765, the Sons of Liberty began agitating against the Stamp Act because it was unfair to the American colonists. The Stamp Act was a taxation on legal documents against the colonists to pay off war debt. The colonists were infuriated and this caused the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. After the colonists threw the tea in the harbor during the Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts were placed. The Intolerable Acts were placed to revoke the rights in Massachusetts and to close the port of Boston. The colonists did not want to fight anymore, they wanted protection and rights. The Olive Branch Petition was the last effort for peace; colonists pledged their loyalty and asked the King to protect their colonial rights and prevent further hostilities. This petition was rejected by the Crown and the hostilities increased. The Revolutionary War occurred and Republican Motherhood brokethrough. Republican Motherhood was the stress of the role of women on guiding family memebers toward republican virtue. This idea elevated women to a newly prestigious role as the special keepers of the nations conscience and expanded educational opportunities for women.

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Colonists were infuriated with Britain because the colonists felt they were treated unfairly and unequally from British motherland citizens.

Colonists were outraged with Britain because Britain was treating them unfairly and taxing them unfairly. Colonists made this clear by doing things like protesting. The Sons of Liberty are credited for the Boston Tea Party. After the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre the Intolerable Acts were created which further angered colonists. The Olive Branch Petition was created as a last chance effort made by the colonists to avoid going into war with Britain. The petition was ineffective and the Revolutionary War occurred. The colonists won the war and the colonists way of life changed in some ways. One of the changes was the republican motherhood which means women were being educated inorder  to educate their children.

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Group 1

Radical Whigs

Sugar Act, 1764

Quartering Act, 1765

Stamp Act, 1765

Declaratory Act, 1766

Townshend Program

Virtual Representation

Group 2

Intolerable Acts

Olive Branch Petition

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

Sons of Liberty

Republican Motherhood

Group 3

Shay's Rebellion

AOC

George Washington

Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions

Alexander Hamilton

2nd Continental Congress

Northwest Land Ordinance