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Conflicts of the Early American Colonies

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The Origins of the Conflict The colonies in North-America didn't meet the feudalism , meaning that the society of the three orders: the popes ,the nobility and the rest of the population. The colonization was made after the social-economical transformations from the English society. Meanwhile, the economy in the colonies started to increase, competing with the one in the metropolis. The colonists had their own leading institutions. A certain Committee consisted of the rich citizens were voting the laws. The executive power belonged to a governor named by the king of England. The colonists also hoped to have the same rights as the citizens from the metropolis. But they couldn't obtain the right to have a representative in the Parliament of London. This has imposed some restrictive measures that served the purpose to keep the colonies in a subordination relationship with the metropolis. That implied the strict control of the products that were transported around the colonies. The ones in London wanted the colonies to contribute to the payback of the expenditure caused by the Seven Years war, when Canada had been attached. The Royal Government has imposed the increasing of the taxes in the colonies. In 1765, The British Parliament voted the Timber Law, which implied that all the official documents had to be written on timbered paper. The uprising of the colonists started to take scale because of this. They affirmed that all the taxes are supposed to be voted by the local Committee. They threatened the metropolis to boycott it's products. Many personalities of the political life ,for example Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson or even the volunteering societies known as "Sons of the Liberty," started to address the willing of protest to the king of England. If, at the beginning , the metropolis-colony conflict had an economical statute, this turned into a political one expressed by the colonists who wanted their own organi

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