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of paying the MolassesAct. All the Sugar Act was, was a British law that raised duties on certainimports in the North American colonies. It was just like the Molasses Act. The Stamp Act was a tax on all newspapers printed in the colonies and a taxon most commercial and legal documents used in business. The QuarteringAct said that any English soldiers could walk in and make living quarters ofyour house, they ate your food and slept in your bed, they were basically anew member of the family. The Currency Act basically said that theAmericans had to pay a lot of the money to repay the debt that England hadmade because of the French and Indian War. England made all these actsand still did not make enough money to finiace a army. The AmericanRevolution was great for America because America gained its independentsfrom it but was not so good for Britain who lost there major source of incomein the war, America. After Britain lost the revolution the United States waslooked at to be a nation of small farms owners and all of Britain restrictionson America were lifted, like the barriers that held the Americans east of themountains. State governments were started and the first national union wasstarted, too. This revolution was important but not as important as the“Glorious Revolution”.The French Revolution started at the meeting of the Estates-Generalon May 5, 1789. The slogan of the French Revolution was were trying to get“Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.” The French Revolution was mostly aboutequality. The members of the Third Estate started it all, then some of theclergy and the nobles came into play. Estates-General then changed itname to the National Assembly, which was the people of France. Thenmany people were mad to take the Oath of the Tennis Court on June 20,1789, which was a pledge that said they would not separate until France hasits constitution. Soon after that the Declaration of the Rights of Ma...

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