Backround


 * 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