HIST 2055 Chapter : The Drift Toward The Revolution
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Stamp act (1765-1766: mock funerals of liberty ; rhetoric of slavery , non importation, boston massacre (1770, boston tea party (1773) In 1715 ben franklin wrote an essay that would point out the population of. Pretty soon british americans would outnumber the british. Franklin said that the colony was growing in such a rate that it would dwarf the population of the mother country. There was an alliance b/n british manufactures and american growers. They were hugging the coast and relying on trade from the atlantic. At the end of the war the american settlers want to push west because they want land. Then the proclamation of 1763 says there cannot be any british-american settlers across the proclamation line. The british don"t want any more troops to defend them over there. In 1765 the stamp act is passed for revenue. Everyone who used paper had to pay a tax on it that would go back to britain.
