How did the colonists work to make changes in the British govnerment?
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Boston Tea Party\nNo taxation w/o respresentation\nRevelutionary War
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the difference in attitude between the colonists (who wanted their independence) and the parliament/king of england.\n\nalso the belief of indirect representation, which basically means that parliament thought that they could rule the colonies indirectly from overseas, but colonists believed in direct representation
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By the middle of the 1700s, the 13 colonies that made up part of England's empire in the New World were finding it difficult to be ruled by a king 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. They were tired of the taxes imposed upon them. But independence was a gradual and painful process. The colonists could not forget that they were British citizens and that they owed allegiance to King George III. \n\nVirginia took the first step toward independence by voting to set up a committee to represent the colonies. The First Continental Congress met in September of 1774. They drew up a list of grievances against the crown which became the first draft of a document that would formally separate the colonies from England.\n\nThe unanimous Declaration of the thirteen (original) United States of America was drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776.\n\nIn Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress presented & debated a second draft of the document. Independence Day is celebrated on July 4 because that is the day when the Continental Congress ADOPTED the FINAL draft. \n\nThe 'Declaration of Independence' served to "...publish and declare that [the United States] are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; and that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown."\n\nFrom July 8, 1776, until the next month, the document was read publicly and people celebrated whenever they heard it. The next year, in Philadelphia, bells rang and ships fired guns, candles and firecrackers were lighted.\n\nJohn Adams, a lawyer, the first Vice President and the Second President of the United States, was one of the members of the Second Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence. He wrote to his wife, "I believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival... it ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other..." \n\nThe new nation was officially recognized following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and in that year, Independence Day was made an official holiday. In 1941, the U.S. Congress declared the 4th of July a federal holiday.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_revolution\n\nshould help  has alot of info on it :)
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British responded with the Intolerable Acts, which had 4 parts.\n\nMassachusetts Government Act \nAdministration of Justice Act \nBoston Port Act \nQuartering Act
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Unlike the rest of the colonies, in Connecticut and Rhode Island the people of the state elected the governor, and, aside from the Navigation and a few other restrictive laws, were practically independent of the Crown. The legislature was bicameral. The respresentative system of government was common to all the colonies.\n\nConnecticut and Rhode Island were chartered (the corporate was the same as the charter form) colonies.
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Engalnd, and the colonies. The colonies did most of the fighting until William Pitt, the English Secretarty of State started demanding shelter, equipment, supplies, and manpower from the colonists. These demands and forced service of men  lead to the colonies revolting against England and the Revolutionary War. Since France was already at war with England, they became our allies (being enemies of our enemies).
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Key Event: America Signs Treaty with Tripoli.\n\nSome more Key Events in President George Washington's Administration\n\n• Precedents---Washington established two main precedents: a cabinet and the two-year term.\n• Whiskey Rebellion, 1794---Washington ordered 15,000 troops to Pennsylvania and crushed the first challenge to federal authority.\n• Farewell Address, 1796---Washington warned against the evils of political parties and "tangling alliances" abroad. \n\n\nOn April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles." \n\nBorn in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. \n\nHe pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him. \n\n   \n From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions. \n\nWhen the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years. \n\nHe realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. \n\nWashington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President \n\nHe did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger. \n\nTo his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. \n\nWashington enjoyed less than three years of retir
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Welll, I'll give it a go.  I think early America -- meaning pre-1776 (before the Declaration of Independence and the advent of the Constitution) -- was a "working democracy".  Technically, during this time, most of the country was under the monarchy of the English king.  And, the British Parliament increasingly enacted most of the laws that governed the area.  So, I would say it was not a democracy; it was, in fact, a monarchy under a king.\n\nHowever, the reason I believe it was a "working democracy" is because the colonists, being far from their homelands, had to rely on each other and, in effect, form a working democracy to communally enact laws and rules of living in order to survive the harshness of their circumstances.  In doing so, they became fiercely loyal to each other, rather than to the King.  They also loved the freedom they were experiencing, despite the hardships.\n\nAs time went on and the colonies grew, the British Parliament became ever more intrusive into their lives.  They began to resent the ever-increasing restrictions, rules, and especially taxations burdened on them by the British Parliament.  And so, they joined together to rid themselves of the British monarchy forever and to form a new nation.  They formed the "United Colonies" and then the "United States.  \n\nI'd say they were a working democracy (meaning that the people, i.e., the colonists, from the very first settlement in the New World formed their own  government of the people and by majority rule, based primarily on the need for the majority to survive) that then became a formalized democracy through the Declaration of Independence and the enactment of the Constitution.
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1. To relieve the British Empire of the costs in political capital with the United States that having clear colonial possessions in North America meant/\n2. To re-gear the internal political structure of the British North American possessions so as to decrease francophone control of the political agenda and institutions without depriving them of their political rights\n3. To create a more streamlined political institution capable of a greater assertion of political sovereignty over the vast resources of the northern half of North America.\n4. To create a more streamlined political institution capable of displacing and "civilising" the aboriginal societies of the continent more effectively.\n5. To streamline the government of the colony so as to ensure the continued ascendancy of Protestant Anglo-Saxon businessmen in trade and commerce\n6. To provide for a greater economic hinterland for the newly developing industrial heartland of Southern Ontario.\n\nThose aren't what you'll find in your socials text, but maybe you should try them on your teacher.....
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Well, that question is a very broad question, but I can give the general overview.  The newly created government in the 1780's is most likely reffering to the United States Constitution.  This Constitution was created due to the lack of federal rights in the Articles of Confederation.  The Articles did not allow Congress to tax or recieve soldiers from the independent states but rather ask for them.  The Articles were considered weak and they were essentially thrown out.  Whether this was legal or not is debatable.  The British also had a great impact on the Constitution because they "abused" the Americans during the revolution and before the revolution.  The Americans therefore, created the Bill of Rights were granted rights to the common man and the states.  Arguably, most of the Bill of Rights have some sort of connection to what the British had done before and during the revolution such as the Second Amendment.  The Second Amendment states, "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."  Many believe this was a response to the Quartering Act Britain established before the revolution.  Many Enlightenment ideas from Britain (like philsophers from John Locke) and other European countries greatly influenced the American government.  Ideas such as freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and others sparked from Europea.  The ideas of the individual "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of Independence were derived from John Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property."  Of course, the framers (of the Constitution) were very intelligent and substituted "property" with "Pursuit of Happiness" because they did not want to debate over owning slaves yet (for that would occur later in the Civil War).
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Between 1770 and 1830, the Tories were the dominant force in the House of Commons. The Tories were strongly opposed to increasing the number of people who could vote. However, in November, 1830, Earl Grey, a Whig, became Prime Minister. Grey explained to William IV that he wanted to introduce proposals that would get rid of some of the rotten boroughs. Grey also planned to give Britain's fast growing industrial towns such as Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds, representation in the House of Commons. \n\nIn April 1831 Grey asked William IV to dissolve Parliament so that the Whigs could secure a larger majority in the House of Commons. Grey explained this would help his government to carry their proposals for parliamentary reform. William agreed to Grey's request and after making his speech in the House of Lords, walked back through cheering crowds to Buckingham Palace. \n\nAfter Lord Grey's election victory, he tried again to introduce parliamentary reform. On 22nd September 1831, the House of Commons passed the Reform Bill. However, the Tories still dominated the House of Lords, and after a long debate the bill was defeated. When people heard the news, Reform Riots took place in several British towns; the most serious of these being in Bristol in October 1831.\n\nOn 7th May 1832, Grey and Henry Brougham met the king and asked him to create a large number of Wigg peers in order to get the Reform Bill passed in the House of Lords. William was now having doubts about the wisdom of parliamentary reform and refused. \n\nLord Grey's government resigned and William IV now asked the leader of the Tories, the Duke of Wellington, to form a new government. Wellington tried to do this but some Tories, including Sir Robert Peel, were unwilling to join a cabinet that was in opposition to the views of the vast majority of the people in Britain. Peel argued that if the king and Wellington went ahead with their plan there was a strong danger of a civil war in Britain. \n\nWhen the Duke of Wellington failed to recruit other significant figures into his cabinet, William was forced to ask Grey to return to office. In his attempts to frustrate the will of the electorate, William IV lost the popularity he had enjoyed during the first part of his reign. Once again Lord Grey asked the king to create a large number of new Whig peers. William agreed that he would do this and when the Lords heard the news, they agreed to pass the Reform Act. \n\nMany people were disappointed with the 1832 Reform Bill. Voting in the boroughs was restricted to men who occupied homes with an annual value of £10. There were also property qualifications for people living in rural areas. As a result, only one in seven adult males had the vote. Nor were the constituencies of equal size. Whereas 35 constituencies had less than 300 electors, Liverpool had a constituency of over 11,000.
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First you have to understand what salutary neglect meant.  Each colony was technically governed by the laws of England, as well as whatever laws the local colonial government passed. England practiced salutary neglect toward the colonies until the mid-1700's, which means they pretty much allowed the colonies to run themselves as they saw fit. The colonies had individual governments, and passed laws appropriate for the people in that colony.  Massachusetts had laws which would be deemed very strict, as their legal system was based on the Biblical standards understood by the Puritan founders of the colony. Other colonies reflected their own first settlers.   Take a look at the following web site:\n\nAn Introduction to the Justice System in Colonial Virginia\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/5650/vajustice.htm
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Good question.  The different colonies had different accents just as in Britain today there are regions and locales with distinct accents.\n\nIn the 20th century, there lived on a remote island in the Chesapeake Bay a population whose English was heavily accented in what many scholars argued was as close to the Colonial English as anything.
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Try this site: \nhttp://www.constitution.org/bcp/albany.htm\nIt wasn't very difficult to read only a couple of paragraphs bascially it was an agreement in 1754 to help the colonists and the Indians. It  was drafted by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian wars.
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The Proclamation of 1763, signed by King George III of England, prohibits any English settlement west of the Appalachian mountains and requires those already settled in those regions to return east in an attempt to ease tensions with Native Americans. \n(2)The Proclamation of 1763 had two purposes:\nTo provide for the establishment of governments in the territories acquired by Britain as a result of the Seven Years' War (1756-63) To provide for British control of Indian affairs in the new lands
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In June of 1776, a committee of the Continental Congress consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut (the "Committee of Five"), was formed to draft a suitable declaration to frame this resolution. The committee decided that Jefferson would write the draft, which he showed to Franklin and Adams. Franklin himself made at least 48 corrections. Jefferson then produced another copy incorporating these changes, and the committee presented this copy to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776.\n\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence