CHAPTER+3.+Did+the+British+actually+did+these+things?

 CHAPTER 3. Did the British actually did these things?
===They certainly did. The following acts were both directly and indirectly mentioned in the Declaration of Independence shown in chapter 2===

Navigation Acts - 1651 ~ 1673
 * Tobacco, sugar, cotton, or enumerated goods from America could be sold only to England. And when all goods are unloaded in England they placed extra "import duty" tax.

Woolen Act - 1699
 * Colonists could not export raw wool to other places, which slowed the growth of colonial manufacturing but protected English trade.

Hat Act - 1732
 * Hatmakers in colonial areas could not sell their beaver hats outside of the colonies.[[image:american_revolution.jpg width="486" height="677" align="right"]]

Molasses Act - 1733
 * Molasses, sugar, rum and more items from the French West Indies were taxed heavily compared to the products from the British West Indies.

Iron Act - 1750
 * The British forbade colonists to build mills to smelt iron. Their intent was very clear; the British wanted America to buy all of their metal supplies from the mother country.

Proclamation of 1763
 * The British government disallowed Americans to move beyond the Appalachian Mountains of the Mississippi, hindering American expansion.

Sugar Act - April 5, 1764
 * The sugar act levied taxes on sugar, coffee, tea, wine, and other imports. Also, it expanded jurisdiction.

Stamp Act - March 22, 1765
 * All printed papers including newspapers, licenses, etc, need special stamp purchased from stamp distributors.

Quartering Act - May, 1765
 * Despite the end of the war, British troops stayed in the colonies. Colonies had to supply British troops with housing and other necessities.

Declaratory Act - March 18, 1766
 * The English Parliament claims their right over the colonies. They have ultimate sovereignty over the colonies no matter what.

Townshend Acts - Jun 26, 29, July 2, 1767
 * The English government decided to levy taxes on lead, paper, tea, glass, etc.

Tea Act - May 10, 1773
 * For the sake of the East India Company that was going bankrupted, the English government gives the company to sell tea directly to the colonies.

Coercive Acts - March -> June 1774
 * In reaction to the Boston Tea Party, the English government closed the ports of Boston, prohibited town hall meetings, sent troops to Boston, and recreated the government system of Massachusetts. This is also called the 'Intolerable Act'

Prohibitory Act - December 22, 1775
 * England attempts to force the Americans to show capitulation. They arrested American ships and embargo on American goods went on.

The Acts listed above are all indicated in the textbook; they are historical facts. There is no doubt that the British actually did these things.

In responses to the accusations of the Americans in chapter 2 :

-Declaratory Act
 * 1. "He has refused his Assent to Laws necessary for the public good.** **He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of pressing importance.****"**

-Declaratory Act, Coercive Acts
 * 2. "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly."**

-Declaratory Act
 * 3. "He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected."**

-Declaratory Act, Coercive Acts
 * 4. "He has obstructed the Administration of justice."**

-Declaratory Act
 * 5. "He has made judges dependent on his Will alone.”**

-Declaratory Act, Coercive Acts, even the Quartering Act since military officials were present.
 * 6. "He has erected a multitude of New Offices to harass our people."**

-Quartering Act
 * 7. "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies."** ... **"For quartering armed troops among us."**

-Declaratory Act, Coercive Acts
 * 8. "He has subject[ed] us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution."**

-Coercive Acts
 * 9. "For protecting them from punishment for Murders."**

-Coercive Acts
 * 10. "For cutting off our Trade."**[[image:british-grenadier.jpg align="right"]]

-Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts
 * 11. "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent."**

-Declaratory Act
 * 12. "For taking away our Charters."**

-Declaratory Act, Coercive Acts
 * 13. "For suspending our Legislatures."**

-Prohibitory Act
 * 14. "..waging War against us"**

-Prohibitory Act, Coercive Acts
 * 15. "He has plundered our seas...burnt our towns."**

= SO, Did the British Parliament truly violate the rights and liberties of the Americans? = ====The Parliament's main aim was to keep British economic control and to maintain America as a docile colony. The British rule levied taxes without the colonists' consent, and stationed a standing army in the colonies during a time of relative peace. They also allowed the French Catholics and Indians to come into the American colonies. Britain also infringed on English liberties, including the right to trial by jury, and the right to freely trade. The Parliament restricted the voice of the colonial legislative assemblies, assumed complete political dominance over the American colony, and even forced British soldiers to be placed in private homes. The Americans had more than enough reason to take a revolution.====