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    American Wars for Independence Paper 2 The relationship between the American colonists and the British began to spiral downhill‚ which led to the colonists to push for their independence. The colonists declared two wars on the British‚ one in 1775 and the other in 1812. Both wars turned out to be a victory for the colonist to gain their independence. The American colonists declared two wars against Great Britain‚ first because they were frustrated and protested the new laws imposed by the British

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    A Delinquent Rebel One thing is clear throughout Nicolas Ray’s 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is that it’s centered around teenage delinquency. The film would have you believe that adolescents are irrationally and inherently rebellious‚ however there is a deeper side to the troubled teens. The viewpoint is to show Jim‚ Judy‚ and Plato are motivated by their own twisted upbringings. Society stands in the way of their rebellion and from this we understand the social outcast aspect as well as the

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    to withstand from one’s own child‚ In fact there are three main factors that cause teenage rebellion: developmental changes in the body and brain‚ social and environmental influences‚ and parent influence. One of the factors that leads to teenage rebel against parents is the developmental changes in the body and brain during these tumultuous teenage years‚ which are all due to puberty. Physically rapid developments can make the child feel like he/she is caught in a body that is adult with many adult

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    Mother Teresa: A Rebel For A Cause Many people are helpful in their own ways some help the environment by saving paper and turning of the lights when they are not needed. Some are helpful to animals by volunteering at animal shelters‚ making sure animals are not put down for no use and organizing recycling or trash programs to clean up the wildlife habitats. Lastly‚ some are helpful to people by donating money or clothes to charities or going to poor places around the world to help rebuild the

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    Why did the colonists expand westward? Well at the time the colonists were very close together on the east coast and many people wanted to explore their living westward away from most of the civilization‚ to make their own. I am thankful for westward expansion because I live in west. The westward expansion was a great help to everyday life. This had great exploration westward for the brave people that decided to endure this excruciating journey. The people that expanded westward had to endure great

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    In 1763 the colonists faced a series of conflicts with Great Britain. These conflicts resulted in the break between the two. Although Great Britain caused many problems by imposing several restrictive acts on the colonists’ during their fight for independence‚ it more importantly caused the colonists’ to come together and grow as they started an independence movement. Great Britain imposed many taxes on the colonists‚ one being the Sugar Act. The reason the Sugar made the colonists so mad was because

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    Even though the colonists were breaking British law‚ the colonists had a right to rebel for they were unfairly taxed without representation and subjected to a king over 3000 miles away. Some people still on both the colonials and the British crown were attempting to avoid a full scale war even after they had begun fighting‚ like in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Most of the colonists did not want war because these were the people that they had been living with‚ and protected by the British for over 150

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    made the decision that the colonists should help pay in the form of a number of taxes. This left the colonists feeling cheated as they failed to hold a single representative seat in Parliament and had no outlet to voice their opinions to the English government. The Sugar‚ Stamp‚ and Townshend Duties were all taxes enforced on the British colonists without their say. The issues were only further escalated by events like the Boston Massacre‚ in which 5 protesting colonists were shot and killed by British

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    and Concord would conjure up a sense of rebellion‚ tension‚ and irritability. The colonists‚ whether divided by loyalists‚ patriots‚ or neutralist‚ turn the tide and revolutionize America. Over the course of the twelve years following the Seven Years War the colonist would grow tired of the sentiments of being solely British subjects and at their beck and call. The most prominent reasons that encouraged the colonist to be in favor of separating from the British regime follow: Thomas Paine’s Common

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    importance of two of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776. Parliamentary Taxation The legacy of colonial religious and political ideas British military measures Restrictions of Civil Liberty Some say that the Revolution was destined to happen ever since Settlers set foot on this continent‚ others argue that it would not have happened if it weren’t for a set of issues that finally drove the colonists to revolt. Ultimately‚ Britain lost control in 1765 when they gave

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