How did the Articles of Confederation reveal the actual causes of the Revolution? What powers did and didn't the Continental Congress give themselves during a time of war against the world's greatest empire at the time? For example, they didn't give themselves the power to tax (even while fighting a war) or the power to […]
How did those who eventually supported the Revolution go from insisting on their rights as English people and as viewing themselves as English, to envisioning and insisting upon breaking away from England?
North American In the 1760s, North American colonists reacted to the taxes placed upon them by England. However, it took several years before many colonists were calling for independence from the mother country. Using five of the acts or events below, explain how the colonists who came to support independence did so. How did those […]