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land of the free home of the brave

In the earlier years of the colonies life was a bit more difficult than it is now in the presant. People led simpeler lives without all the things we take for granted today. Times when our government was merely a puppet of mother England thousands of miles away. It was this government and its actions that brought out the anger in its subjects to the point of rebellion and eventual emancipation from the larger power. So what brought this small country to the boiling point? It seemed to be a serious of pushes from England that led to the eventual split of the colonies and the U.K.Circa 1763, England. Parliament wrights up the proclamation of 1763 and sends it too America. No more western expansion, no more land surveying, no more land purchasing. Those are some of the laws that the proclamation stated, laws that only enraged the colonies. But with this social rage and hatred a union was born, the United States of America blossomed out of a seed of frustration and hate, planted by their British forefathers. With the help of the actual document, the book a history of the united states, by Philip Jenkins, Zinn, Nash, and the internet I will prove this fact.In the 1760s war was ravaging England’s economy, they were fighting off the French on the northern borders and paying dearly for it. To pay for these prices England enacted the stamp act, a taxing system forced on the colonies making them pay heavy prices for their war. Not only did his enrage the colonies but also it gave England the stigma of a tyrannical force that the American revolutionaries would use to rationalize their war.It was in 1763 that a major push was made by the Britain, giving the colonist even more reason to have anger and ill regards. Throughout the Anglo-Freanch war Indian allies had been used on both sides buy the French and bye the British. To show the Indians their gratitude the British decided to show them their gratitude in the form of a roy...

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