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Revolutionary

the revolution. The most important of the acts were the Bill ofRights and the Toleration Act, which were both passed in 1689, and the Actof Settlement was passed in 1701. The purpose of the Bill of Rights was tomake it the kings responsibility to govern with the assistance of Parliament,even if James was still around, it would now be impossible for him to rulewithout Parliament. The Toleration Act allowed everyone to worship as theypleased, well except for Catholics, Jews, and Unitarians. The Act ofSettlements only said that it was required that all future monarchs to bemembers of the church of England. This is the most important revolution ofthem all because it was the first one and it started all of the rest, probablywithout this revolution, the other ones would not of started.The American Revolution was first started by the thirteen coloniesrevolting against their British rulers in 1775. The colonists revolted againsttheir rulers because they were interfering with the way that they were runningthere country, America. Britain wanted to run America like another one of itscities, it wanted absolute control over it, but on the other hand Americawanted to run its self as a independent country. This the major reason forthe America Revolution and that Britain would outrageously tax people inAmerica, they also would not let America prosper. Britain went to such highstandards to make sure everyone obeyed there laws, too. They would sendBritish soldiers to make sure everybody in America was obeying there laws. Still, America didn’t have any rights and Britain started taxes more things,they made up these acts to money off America. The acts were the MolassesAct, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act and the Currency Act. The Molasses Act forced colonists to pay import duties on foreign molasses,sugar, wine, and other goods. The colonists were very displeased with thisand started smuggling thing into America, instead ...

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