AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: British America, Intolerable Acts, Constitutional Monarchy
28 Mar 2018
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"give me liberty, or give me death!" was uttered by samuel adams at the first continental congress. A major blow to the relationship between the british and colonists occurred when lord dunmore proclaimed that escaped slaves who took up arms for the king would be freed. According to the doctrine of "virtual representation," the house of commons represented very few residents of the british empire, despite their voting statuses. Adding to congress"s formal declaration, the declaration of independence declared the united states independent of british rule. An early skirmish between the colonists and british soldiers arose over the seizure of arms stockpiled in. As thomas paine"s pamphlet, common sense, became one of the most successful and influential in the history of political writing to that date, paine wanted a share of the profits to be used for supplies for the continental army. As tensions between britain and the colonies mounted, social conflict within the colonies faded.
