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This 6 page paper examples the various ways in which the English crown exerted imperial authority over the American colonies and how these policies also impacted and changed English policies domestically. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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colonies in America might be overrun, and even worse in many cases, squeezed out of the trade and export revenue. To that end, the English were motivated to insure that
their interests in America were protected, both from the French, and moreso, from within. England began to tighten its control over the colonies during the time period between 1660-1760 in
ways which not only impacted the American colonists and gave impetus to the American Revolution, but which also ended up shaping and changing the landscape of English policies domestically. UNREASONABLE
FEAR AND EXPECTATIONS The American Revolution did not reach critical max over night. Rather, it was a culmination of factors and events which laid the foundation and bred the environment
which allowed the colonists to organize and renounce their former allegiances. But what are those certain factors which cause ordinary citizens to take up arms against their government? According
to a primary source, a formal petition arguing against the restrictions on Iron and what the colonists might construct with it, one can see that the English were slowly placing
unreasonable restraints on a new country that was attempting to survive. It becomes obvious that Britain was deliberately controlling the economic affairs of their American colonies for the ultimate purpose
of enhancing British wealth(Johnson 2001). Therefore, the British Crown had issued an ultimatum, based on this document, that raw iron must be shipped directly to America and that no manufacture
of any iron good, even for personal use on ones farm, could be forged within the colony. In other words, if a person needed to make a plow, or refit
an axe head, he must order them from England, rather than make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict
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