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Revolutionary War: The Prelude
Title: Revolutionary War: The Prelude
Category: History
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Revolutionary War: The Prelude
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
-Prelude to War-
The Development of Americans
The American settlers had early become used to taking a share in government. Every colony elected an assembly. The Virginians set up their House of Burgesses only 12 years after Jamestown was settled. The Pilgrims drew up the Mayflower Compact before building their first log cabin in 1620. This was a set of rules for governing their colony.
Many settlers came to America to be free to …showed first 75 words of 3711 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3711 total…of the American assemblies. At the first Continental Congress, Joseph Galloway of Pennsylvania proposed to erect an American legislature, subordinate to Parliament, which would have the right to veto all British laws relating to the general interests of the colonies. Some leaders favored American representation in Parliament, and a few Englishmen were ready to give the colonies their independence. But all these plans failed, and the issue had to be decided by force.
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