The Olive Branch Petition
The Carolinas separate their colonies because of the dispute between land proprietors. They also had conflicts because of their cultural differences.
Great Britain accepted growing U.S influence in Latin American countries.
The dispute over where the Oregon boundary was located was between the United States and Great Britain. They were in disagreement on where the boarder between Oregon and Canada should be drawn.
If there are disputes over authority between local, state, or the national government, how are the disputes resolved?
The dispute over the northern boundary of the U.S. claim to the Oregon Territory was was settled in the Treaty of Oregon of 1846, during the presidency of James K. Polk. The treaty established the boundary between British Canada and the U.S. at 49-degrees latitude. -- Contributed by Ray Kovach, Chicago, IL
taxation without representation
taxation without representation
For at least 10 years before the Declaration of Independence, there had been constant problems between Great Britain and her American colonies. By the early 1770's matters between the British Crown and the colonies was heating up to the boiling point. The main dispute in 1774 was the so-called Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament. In 1775, Edmund Burke was trying to prevent an armed conflict. He spoke in the House of Commons and pleaded for a reconciliation to avoid a rebellion in the American colonies. The majority of the Members of Parliament, however, rejected any compromises with the colonies. Burke had warned them that using force in America would be a disaster.Back in Virginia, Patrick Henry, was advised about the intransigent British Parliament. Henry appealed for a united colonies and asked for support for the city of Boston, which had been a hotbed of conspiracy. His speech contained the famous words of " .... give me liberty or give me death.." were meant to take up arms against the British. Henry was a solid supporter of separating the colonies from Great Britain. This of course was treason.
For at least 10 years before the Declaration of Independence, there had been constant problems between Great Britain and her American colonies. By the early 1770's matters between the British Crown and the colonies was heating up to the boiling point. The main dispute in 1774 was the so-called Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament. In 1775, Edmund Burke was trying to prevent an armed conflict. He spoke in the House of Commons and pleaded for a reconciliation to avoid a rebellion in the American colonies. The majority of the Members of Parliament, however, rejected any compromises with the colonies. Burke had warned them that using force in America would be a disaster.Back in Virginia, Patrick Henry, was advised about the intransigent British Parliament. Henry appealed for a united colonies and asked for support for the city of Boston, which had been a hotbed of conspiracy. His speech contained the famous words of " .... give me liberty or give me death.." were meant to take up arms against the British. Henry was a solid supporter of separating the colonies from Great Britain. This of course was treason.
The colonies and England. A+LS
The Carolinas separate their colonies because of the dispute between land proprietors. They also had conflicts because of their cultural differences.
The excuse given was that taxes helped pay for British troops in the thirteen colonies, who were alleged to be there to "defend" the colonists. However there had never been large numbers of British troops in the colonies before except when the colonies became a battleground in the wars between France and England. At other times the colonists were left to defend themselves, from the Indians, or from French troops when the wars got going, before any British troops arrived. But after the French and Indian War the French were ejected from all of North America. There WAS no danger such as had existed before that war. With the French gone, who could these British troops be meant to oppose? The only answer was that the colonists themselves were the object of interest for the British troops. One of the real reasons for the taxes was that Britain was broke, the Treasury empty. It had been expensive to fight the long war in North America, so far from Britain, as well as in Europe, and even in the Pacific, and, it was a colonial dispute between the British colonies and the French colonies that touched off the war. But the British gained immense territories from the war in the end. And the British had received a LOT of help from the men of the colonies, fighting in their militia and colonial units alongside the British Regulars. These American soldiers were supported by taxes paid in the colonies they came from, so from the American point of view the colonists had already paid heavily for the prosecution of the war, in blood and money.
The dispute between Rupert's Land and U.S., the dispute between Massachusetts (colonial) and New Brunswick, and the dispute between Georgia and West Florida.
The Falkland Islands are in dispute between Argentina and the UK. Because of the islands' strategic position in the Atlantic Ocean and due to the act that most of the colonies that had British troops based on them are mostly gone, the UK needed to keep possession there.
The Mason-Dixon Line. Surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. It forms a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia).
Dispute over Kashmir
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. The Boston Tea Party arose from two issues confronting the British Empire in 1773: the financial problems of the British East India Company, and an ongoing dispute about the extent of Parliament's authority, if any, over the British American colonies without seating any elected representation. The North Ministry's attempt to resolve these issues produced a showdown that would eventually result in revolution.