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Colonial Resistance help create a unique American Identity by resisting against the British for manufactured goods. Since the population in colonists was expanding the needed more land and materials. Colonial merchants began smuggling, or shipping goods without paying the British tax. This caused individualism and they started to gain power because of the more freedom they had when they started to revolt against England.

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British Colonial Policies/Navigation Acts 

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British Colonial Policies/Navigation Acts 

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The British Colonial Policies help create a unique American identity by establishing a series of laws called Navigation  Acts in the 1650's. This angered the colonies because any goods brought by the colonies in Europe had to go to England first and be taxed before they could be sent to the Americas. When the Colonies got enough of this they established their own rules for trade.They revolted against England because one of these factors.

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The Press in America help create a unique American identity by spreading knowledge not only by school and colleges but also by books.newspapers, and almanacs. This allowed news to get spread faster and if one of the colonies revolted against the British other colonies would read this and be affected by their action to do the same thing.

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Education in the Colonies help create a unique American identity by spreading the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society which affected many educated colonists. This caused the first colleges to be establish so they could properly train ministers. The colleges also allowed people to get knowledge so they could think for themselves. They no longer needed other people to tell them what to do.

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The Great Awakening help create a unique American identity by colonists choosing their own faith,and this caused the strength of official churches to declined. For the fist time colonist from north and south united for a common cause this paved the ride for the rapid spread of political ideas. People started to form their own opinion towards government or religion.

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Representatives helped create a unique American identity by believing in ideas of natural rights and government. This became the basis of protest and revolts in the colonies. This helped established our current government structure. Also this forced King John in 1215  to sign the Manga Carta which gave everyone protection of individual rights.

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The Enlightenment helped create a unique American identity by John Locke spelling out political ides in Treatises of Civil government which influenced many Colonist and Colonial leaders to Rebel against England. Also John Locke's beliefs reflect and influenced the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution