HIST 104H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Socalled, Anti-Imperialism, American Exceptionalism
3 Oct 2016
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During the seven years" war, britain treated the colonies as its ally. After the seven years" war, london insisted that the colonists play a subordinate role to the mother country and subordinate role to the mother country and help pay for the protection the. Members of the british parliament had virtual representation. The colonists argued london could not tax them because they were underrepresented in. The sugar act of 1764 and a revenue act threatened the profits of colonial merchants. The stamp act of 1765 was a direct tax on all sorts of printed materials. The stamp act was wide-reaching and offended virtually every free colonist. Opposition to the stamp act was the first great drama of the revolutionary era and the first major split between the colonists and great britain over the meaning of freedom. American leaders viewed the british empire as an association of equals in which free settlers overseas enjoyed the same rights as britons at home.
