NOTAT: USA - Selvstendighet og ekspansjon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Palmer/Colton/Kramer: 338-348 Background to the Revolution: - The British government tried to make the colonials pay a larger share of the expenses of the empire. ?Townshend duties? which taxed colonial imports on paper, paint, lead and tea. - The Americans argued that Parliament had no authority to tax them because they were not represented in it. - The Boston Tea Party: 1773, Parliament granted the East India Company exclusive rights to sell tea. Americans boycotted it. In Boston, a party of men invaded the tea ships and dumbed the chests into the harbor. - The Quebec Act ? pro French and pro catholic.
The Westward Experiment - USA
NOTAT: USA - Selvstendighet og ekspansjon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Palmer/Colton/Kramer: 338-348 Background to the Revolution: - The British government tried to make the colonials pay a larger share of the expenses of the empire. ?Townshend duties? which taxed colonial imports on paper, paint, lead and tea. - The Americans argued that Parliament had no authority to tax them because they were not represented in it. - The Boston Tea Party: 1773, Parliament granted the East India Company exclusive rights to sell tea. Americans boycotted it. In Boston, a party of men invaded the tea ships and dumbed the chests into the harbor. - The Quebec Act ? pro French and pro catholic.
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