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Explain why they did or did not have a strong union to start out

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Explain why they did or did not have a strong union to start out

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The enlightenment was a European movement where everything started changing. People saw the Europeans expanding their knowledge and then they followed.

1. When the colonists starting truly fighting for freedom (writing the declaration of independence)

2. Protesting against “No taxation without representation”. Because they were not free and you aren’t free if you don’t have a say in how you are taxed. And part of the enlightenment is yearning for societal freedom.

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They faced conflict with the Native Americans that they had to fix, they also had a lot of money that they needed to pay back, as they were drowning in debt. There were also many people smuggling products so they didn't have to pay taxes. They dealt with the debt problem by enforcing the stamp and sugar acts, the trade regulation rule was fixed by a new law that was put into effect where if somebody was convicted of smuggling, the judge who was in charge of the trial would get a percentage of the cargo from the ship of the convicted smuggler.

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1. They got into a huge financial debt which caused them to tax new types of things which angered the citizens a lot. It angered them because they were giving so much money to the British just for them to spend it on weapons and still lose.

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The the Colonists were finished with the taxation of their daily items so they planned the Boston Tea Party. During the Boston Tea Party, they dumped crated of expensive tea into the harbor. This act angered the British and showed the British that the Colonists were fed up with the over taxation of products like tea.

After the British wrote the Intolerable acts the Colonists decided they needed to do something to stand up for these aggressive laws. So they created the first continental congress where they planned to boycott the British.

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The age of enlightenment was a period in the 1700s where people focused more on rights like the natural rights (John Locke) and how the government should protect its citizens. 2 examples would be:

Belief in Natural Rights

Desire for self government

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The enlightenment was a time where they valued science and knowledge. This inspired the colonists to focus more on reason and less on religion. The colonists also started to focus more on their government and fighting for a voice in their government with "No taxation without representation".

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The Southern Colonies were focused on farming such as growing crops and they had widely spread out and isolated settlements. The Middle Colonies had a more diverse economy and depended on making money this led to a lot of indentured servants and slaves, and the economy was small and spread out but the settlement's are interconnected. The New England Colonies had farms that were run by the owner and not by slaves. The Southern Colonies had a white supremacy. The Middle Colonies was multicultural. The New England Colonies were mono-racial. The Southern Colonies was wealthy, and there would be white men to solve their problems. The Middle Colonies was ruled by a small town government. The New England Colonies were ruled by Religious leaders. The Southern Colonies followed the Anglican faith, The Middle Colonies were religiously diverse, and The New England Colonies practiced the Calvinist Faith.

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England faced many problems after the 7 years war. They didn't want to go west because the natives would kill the colonists and they didn't want to start another war. England also lost a lot of money so they increased taxes but this caused smuggle items instead of pay. England was also in debt after the war. They fixed this by temporarily closing off the west till they could find a safe way to live on the west side. They also tried to increase taxes on colonists

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England was in severe debt after the french and Indian war. They lost a lot of money because of the fighting. They also lost soldiers. So in return they decided it would be a good idea if they created a proclamation line. this stopped people from settling on certain land. Because if people did they be in more. They also after careful consideration decided to raised taxes for colonists. They raised taxes on tea, sugar, stamps, and so much more. Lastly they decided it would be a rational choice if they sent British troops everywhere.

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The Reason why the 3 colonial regions united is because each colony had certain types of resources that the other colonies did not have. So uniting with each other would cause them to become way more powerful, which helps them a lot for the revolution because they have what it takes to overthrow the British.

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England faced a variety of challenges, each with a multitude of varying problems. firstly, one of the main problems is a debt that took years to pay off. The British government used multiple methods such as the stamp and the sugar act. These where acts that taxed the colonists. Colonists were smuggling variety of goods so they don't pay taxes. the Appalachian mountains where also a problem, as the price to hire guards to look over the lands. To fix this problem, they simply closed off axes to the mountains, which upset colonists.

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In New England the land was hilly, rocky, no farming, summers were mild, town meetings, government, access to coastline, people who settled were seeking religious freedom. In the middle region, there was fertile land area, moderate climate, good for farming, came from different countries (people who were settling), political matters were settled in larger more populated towns. In the southern colony the climate was humid/warm, good for farming, winters were cool, a lot of forests, good for farming, indentured servants, a lot of colonists. The colonial regions united when the continental congress was formed. They started out rough because they were trying something new.

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When the british were trying to make taxes payers pay higher percentages, the colonists started refusing to buy british products to avoid the inflation. They also created the Sons of Liberty, where the american colonists would parade in different places and yell their slogan, "No Taxation without Representation"

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First, they were hit with a big wave of debt. They fixed this problem by taxing the colonists. To do this they passed acts like the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. These acts placed high taxes on the colonists every day items.

Next, they were overwhelmed with all of the new land that they had just won after the war. They didn't want people on it so they placed the Proclamation of 1763 which banned the colonists from moving past the Appalachian mountains.

Lastly, the colonist were so overly angry at the. They were taxing the colonists without a representation in parliment which really angered them. The sugar and stamp acts made them furious with the British. This in turn made King George angry. To fight off the angry colonists he passed the Coercive acts to tame them. This only angered them more.

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The Southern colonies were focused on farming and there crop lands and they had widely spread and isolated settlements. They also had white supremacy. The middle colonies depended more on making money this led to lots of indentured servants and slaves. The New England colonies were ruled by religious leaders they relied on there harbors and trade to make the money and produce food because they didn't have good soil to plant crops.

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After the effects of the Boston Tea Party in 1774, the British put in place several rules and law to control the colonists more and more. Because of this, all of the 13 colonies (except Georgia) gathered in Pennsylvania to discusses separation from the British in 1774. So that in 1775 they would be able to put a boycott in act.

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The colonists were mad because the British government gave them no say in any laws. The colonists were very mad about all of the taxes being placed on the tea, so to resist they snuck on to a British ship and dumped all of their tea into the harbor. Another thing they did to resist was form the Committees of Correspondence to connect all of the colonies so they could work together to uproot the Parliament.

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The problems that the Western lands were facing were conflicting claims over the Ohio area, deciding what land had to be set aside and what has to be sold, and they had to stay true to the Native American treaties. The solution was they eventually stationed British troops to protect the land but that cost them a lot of money. There was also trouble with trade regulations, as many Americans were smuggling British goods. Their solution was to replace a jury for a judge and to enforce the Writs of Assistance and the Sugar Act. The last problem that they faced was finances. They were in a very bad financial position which caused them to raise taxes. The solution to this was to enforce the Sugar Act and Stamp Act

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the tree colonies had factors that made them each unique. With different agriculture, climate, and geography. There were many differences. First off is that the Southern Colonies focused on farming. They had indentured servants They grew many varieties of crops. The middle Colonies focased on fishing, farming, and more. middle was more for religious freedom