Protests, Riots and Civil Unrest

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The Navigation Acts: It was designed by King Charles II, to make the colonies and the parent country (England), dependent on each other, without any foreign interference.

The Revenue Act of 1764: This new law, was designed by George Grenville, King George III's chief minister. This law allowed the colonies to pay low prices for sugar from foreign countries, so the government (England) could get the revenue from the tax (money from the French and the Dutch).

The Stamp Act of 1765: In 1765, Grenville searched for even more revenue for the English Empire. In addition to customs duties, he suggested an excise tax, a levy on various good and services produced within the colonies. The tax would be paid by purchasing a stamp that was then placed on the article. His act would require stamps on newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, ship's papers, and the like.

The Declaratory Act of 1766: This law was in response to the American uproar of the Stamp Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in the spring of 1766. But, to save face it passed the Declaratory Act, which declared that Parliament had full power to pass laws and levy taxes for America "in all cases whatsoever."

The Townshend Taxes of 1767: George Grenville resigned. The new finance minister, Charles Townshend, then suggest a new plan. He asked Parliament to levy customs duties on various colonial imports - paint, tea, paper, lead, and glass. The Townshend taxes were repealed by Parliament in 1770. However, the tax on tea remained, as a symbol of England's authority over the American Colonies, and all who lived there.

The Intolerable Acts: After the famous "Boston Tea Party," England would push the American Colonists too far. One of the acts closed the port of Boston until the city paid for the tea. A second act revoked the charter of Massachusetts, suspending the colony's civil government and placing it under military rule. A third measure was the Quartering Act, which forced colonists to provide food an housing for the soldiers who ruled over them. A fourth act permitted British officials who injured people while enforcing the law to return to Britain for their court hearings.

It doesn't have to be Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, or Norway; the 1st Amendment protects US citizens to peaceably assemble to protest.

During the American Revolutionary Period. the thirteen colonies initially protested (perceived or actual) excesses of British rule in a wide variety of ways: pamphlets were written, letters were sent, meetings were held, public protests were organized, goods were not bought or even destroyed, and eventually troops were raised and drilled while arms were stored in the event of war. Finally, the protest reached the point of a 'Declaration of Independence' and the waging of active war for almost a decade before independence was achieved.

Women protested against the Oppian Law because they weren't allowed to wear more then half an ounce of gold, they weren't allowed to wear purple-trimmed clothing items or ride in carriages in or around the city of Rome unless there was a festival of public occasion, so basically they had next to no rights.

The colonists felt that the Stamp Act and other British taxes that were being imposed on them by the British Parliament were unfair without having representation. To protest these taxes the colonists refused to purchase the goods that were being sent in from Great Britain.

Besides the war and the draft, the American counterculture or the 1960s condemned racial discrimination and "The Man" (the power of government and those who supported it) and traditional 'uptight' American values. One of the mantras of the 60s counterculture that survives today, and I still live by is, "question everything".

John Adams

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Protests against a church organization are called different names depending on the level of disagreement. Minor protests are called disagreements or disputes. Major religious changes are usually the result of what are called "reformations." Such reformations happened at the ideals of people like Martin Luther or John Calvin.

Some of the protests were. But the government mainly ignored those who opposed them. I dont know if you've ever heard of the Pentagon Papers, but that was mainly why people hated the war so much. The government lied about the condition of the war. They said we were winning and that the soldiers would be home in no time, when in fact it just the opposite. we werent winning, in fact we had lost so many US soldiers that some had even commited suicide. People protested because they didnt believe the government anymore.

People who protested the Stamp Act held demonstrations and printed pamphlets to hand out to educate others about how they felt about paying British royalties for signing documents. Some even went as far as to print their own documents instead of using British supplied documents.

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The Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor because they were against the Stamp Act. They did not want to pay such a high tax for this tea. Tea they where only allowed to buy from British Ships, with a tax they had no say in British Parliament either for or against. This say, is ultimately all the people of the Colonies actually wanted. They did not want to cause any damage to the ships which held the tea. All they wanted to do was dump tea into the harbor. They kept there word and didn't damage the ship or anything else on it besides the tea.

Because it is causing our economy to go down in it profits and making people scared and frightened to do certain things. it is also the only way government w3ill hear them and it is not why we want peace it is why are we in this war?

the colonists took charge to the british, as they were unhappy with all of the taxes the british were outting on them:

they had many actions such as the:

boston massacre: colonists protesting to the british soliders. the soldiers responded to this by shooting at the colonists. 5 people were killed. the first to be killed was cripus attucks. samuel adams defended the british sloiders in the court, and won.

boston tea party: the colonists disguised themselves as native americans and went down to the boston harbor and dumped 342 boxes of dejing tea into the harbor. the colonists consequence for this was that the british closed the port for the colonists until they paid off he millions of dollars of lost tea. this was a big problem since a lot of colonists worked there.

tarring and feathering: when the british tax collectors would come by the colonists houses to collect the taxes, the colonists would dump hot tar onto them and then dump feathers o them. this many times ended in servere burns and or death. the tax collectors were often beaten.

martin luther king jr orginized demostrations in which alabama city to protes attempts to deny black citizens the right to vote

Originally the idea was to get rid of Saddam Hussein. Unfotunately, a whole lot different factions, mainly different versions of Muslims, tried to fill the space when he was gone and there's been a war ever since. The war is the battle for trying to stabilise the country and stop the continual insurgency and bombings.

Newly-arrived Irish immigrants objected to being drafted into the army.

S d s or Students for a Democratic Society

Sons of Liberty!!

In the United States, as far back as President John Adams' wife Abigail, who asked her husband to "remember the ladies," there were individual women who wanted a say in the decisions that affected their life. In the early to mid 1800s, journalist Margaret Fuller (who died in 1850) and abolitionist and early feminist Lucy Stone became known for speaking on behalf of equal rights for women (Stone was the first woman to keep her name when she married).

But perhaps the first organized event was a women's rights convention that took place at Seneca Falls (New York) in 1848. Attended by the era's leading proponents of equality and voting rights for women, it marked the launch of an ongoing campaign to change public opinion and win the vote. It should be noted that while women did not gain suffrage (an old word that meant "permission") nationally till 1920, certain states began giving women voting rights before that-- among the first was Colorado, in 1893, and Montana was the first state to sent a woman to congress, Jeannette Rankin, in 1916.

· Riots broke out during summer heatwaves

· Influence of Radical leaders encouraged action.

Blacks often found that they were in underpaid employment or no employment at all.

Younger generation was tired of non-violent methods and wanted to take action.

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One disadvantage with the Boston tea party was that the Intolerabel Acts were passed because of it. The Intolerable Act were 4 harsh laws. One of these were the ending of Town Meetings

One advantage was that there were no more taxes on tea