HISTORY 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tea Act, Intolerable Acts, Stamp Act Congress
22 Nov 2017
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*until 1775 the idea of independence was not shared, congress did not want independence until 1776. A lot of maps make common errors in disclosing nova scotia from the 13 british colonies, which means there were 14 colonies. Nova scotia however did not rebel against the british order. Americans in the south wanted to move westward into the indian reserve to inhabit those lands and to do business, however the british did not allow them to. This was a major reason as to why the americans wanted to rebel. However the most important reason was due to the war debt. The british empire was fighting a lot of wars and acquired a lot of debt, the imperial debt was 75% of the annual expenditure, they had to pay back 137 million pounds in debt. The colonies also had debt which made the.
