Background


 * Background **

During the 18th century Great Britain dominated what is now known as Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia. At first when the king of England had begun to control the new and undiscovered land everything was fine. The new settlers on the west were treated the same by Parliament as those other British men and women on the east of the Atlantic. Yet as the years went by the people who settled in the colonies began to see that they where treated unjust compared to the people who actually lived across the Atlantic on Britain. The people of the colonies where not respected when it came to politics so they decided to boycott certain items that Parliament thought should have higher tariffs. The last straw to this unjust system was that of the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts where a series of laws that where highly unfair to the people residing in the colonies. These acts consisted of the Impartial Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. The Impartial Act stated that the royal governor of a colony could move a case to Britain if the jury from the colony would be bias over the trial and the sentence. Then the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act forbade town meetings that the royal governor did not approve of. The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until there was a payment of the tea that was dumped during the Boston Tea Party. The Quartering Act stated that royal soldiers where allowed to reside in the houses of the colonists if barracks where not available, and the Quebec Act said that all the Catholics that lived in Quebec would have religious freedom. These acts were put in order in 1774 just two years before the Declaration of Independence was published. The Declaration of Independence was written to mark the official separation between mother Britain and ruthless daughter America.