Events leading to the American Revolution
During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in
Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the
colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament
becomes more and more intolerable. During the Seven Years' War England was
not only alarmed by the colonists' insistence on trading with the enemy,
but also with Boston merchants hiring James Otis inorder to protest the
legality of the writs of assistance (general search warrants) used to hunt
out smuggled goods. "let the parliament lay what burthens they please on us,
we must, it is our duty to submit and patiently bear them, till they will
be pleased to relieve us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764,
the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for
self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as
the rights are slowly rescinded.
On October......
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