Once again, the question of who is sovereign created problems for the colonies. England produced a series of acts as a response to the province's rebellion. The Stamp Act raised port duties on certain items imported from the West Indies, such as sugar, coffee, and wine. This act was enforced...

Before the American Revolution, numerous events changed the way America is today. Two of these major events were pluralism and salutary neglect. In the early 1700s, America was a society in which many particular, racial or cultural groups, co-existed in one nation, also known as pluralism. Immigran...

The people of the American colonies believed they came to a new world were they could begin a new life and wouldn't live under the same standards of their mother country, however the mother land decided to tax and take control of the land and people whom lived in their colonies so they ...