Unlike the rationalism of Locke, his sermons were designed to appeal to his listeners’ emotions.
Emotions are going to affect people more than just yelling at them. By planning your sermon or discussion around feelings. It will connect more to the audience.
Many colonists came to see their assemblies as having the same jurisdiction over them that Parliament exercised over those in England.
They are engaging in things that they have the power to do. Why not attend something that might change a course of action. Or if it effects a form of payment or when something gets paid.
colonists, once again, resisted.
No shocker there. Why would the colonist follow the British rules if all it is doing is doing more harm. I think that the deciding to become a nation was the smarts thing. However, it didn't need to go down in this big of a fight.
Parliament also passed the Declaratory Act, asserting that Parliament had the “full power and authority to make laws . . . to bind the colonies and people of America . . . in all cases whatsoever.”
Was it in the fine print or did America really not read this document. The other option could be that they never received it. Why do you need to bind them? That is just going to make them react more than what you want them too. Britan is causing unnecessary problems which is causing revolting and people turning on them.
PRO PATRIA, The first Man that either distributes or makes use of Stampt Paper, let him take care of his House, Person, & Effects. Vox Populi; We dare.”18
This statement is basically saying that if you tax us, it means that they don't have the money for slaves and servants. Why should we be paying you for all the hard work we have done. It can also be taken as a threat to the British royal throne.
As Daniel Dulany wrote in 1765, “It is an essential principle of the English constitution, that the subject shall not be taxed without his consent.
I feel like the people will want to know if they have to pay more to the government. By not letting them know it can and did cause a bigger problem than what it needed to be.
The Congress also recommended that the colonies should begin preparing new written constitutions
Why do the colonies have to write new constitutions? Is it in case they lose they have guidance set in stone or to make sure that all the colonies get a say in the Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin Franklin had been in Paris trying to secure a treaty of alliance with the French.
Having alliancing in this war of freedom is huge you need supplies and resources. This is taking place in the middle of the war. As it is going on Benjamin Franklin goes to Paris to see if he can get support and supplies.
New York was the perfect location to launch expeditions aimed at seizing control of the Hudson River and isolating New England from the rest of the continent
If Britian wanted to take control of the colonies they should go straight to the center of New England. That is where the money and funding is at. They could take control of that area and contain the army slowly. If they lose access to the docks and the city, it will cause the American army to struggle.
Moreover, revolutionaries justified their new nation with radical new ideals that changed the course of history and sparked a global “age of revolution.”
With the new ideas being thrown in the heads/ minds of these colonist is that they can do it by themselves. This quote is a skip forward to when they are thinking about how they are reacting to the taxes and the money that the British are trying to milk from them.
The British North American colonists had just helped to win a world war and most, like Rush, had never been more proud to be British.
At this point in time the colonies were still "head over heels" for the British because they grew up there and they are getting their funding and food from them. They know what is feels like to win a war from a kingdom that is supporting your travels.
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was Britain’s first major postwar imperial action targeting North America.
The colonies were just living their lives like they do every day and now they have to pay taxes to Great Britain because they didn't have the resource or funds to fight the war themselves.
including taxing residents, managing the spending of the colonies’ revenue, and granting salaries to royal officials.
They are the same when it comes to how they are managing their money because they were taught that way. But the way they tax their money and how they spend it is different.
“patriot Whigs” argued that the colonies should have equal status with the mother country.
Why should they be equal. If they are off on another land spot, they should be able to defend themselves and decide for themselves.