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1775 https://www.dailykos.com/news/1775 News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Tue, 28 Jan 2020 02:13:15 +0000 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 02:13:15 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) On This Day In History .... The Resistance @The Village https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/2/10/1833338/-On-This-Day-In-History-The-Resistance-The-Village *Disclaimer: I’ve had a cold the last week and was so excited to see that February 9th landed on a Sunday (it doesn’t) because there’s colonial history to talk about. I can finally sneak in a sentence about the Boston Tea Party! When I was all done writing this, sipping my green tea and honey Theraflu, I realized Sunday is the 10th. What’s a girl to do? Roll with it and pretend today is the 9th and hope people join you in the story.* On this day in history, February 9, 1775, the British Parliament reported to King George III the colony of Massachusetts was in a <a href="https://alphahistory.com/americanrevolution/rebellion-declared-massachusetts-1775/">state of rebellion</a>, but the colony had been resisting British rule for years. Let me provide some context. For most of the colonies existence, British rule was pretty nonexistent. The colonies ruled themselves, protected themselves with militias, created currency and traded their goods. Due to this “<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect">salutary neglect</a>,” the colonies had a sense of autonomy. From 1754-63 the colonies had been involved in the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War">French and Indian War</a>, also known as the Seven Years’ War. It was a war fought between France and Great Britain (who are never friends) over colonial territory surrounding the Ohio River and trading. Basically, it was about money and territory, like most wars. During this war, England is “defending” it’s colonies and own interests while colonists are defending their homes and livelihood. To the colonists, this is a joint effort that they have put their own money, equipment and lives into seeing a successful resolution. War isn’t cheap and the English treasury is feeling it so they have to impose taxes on everyone, which makes no one happy. In addition, British Parliament is wanting to rein in the colonies and bring them under control with a series of acts that took place from 1764 to 1767. <ul> <li>1751 - <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/currencyact.HTML">Currency Act</a> </li> <li>1764 - <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract.html">Sugar Act</a> </li> <li>1765 - <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act">Stamp Act</a> </li> <li>1765 - <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-passes-the-quartering-act">Quartering Act</a></li> <li>1767 - <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts">Townshend Act</a></li> </ul> Now you have all these hard lined rules in place where there was none before. They can’t create their own currency as they had previously, there’s tightening on smuggling sugar and molasses, every paper document (including cards) is taxed and so on. Life for the colonists has completely changed. People are angry. <ul> <li>March 5, 1770 - <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.html">Boston Massacre</a> </li> <li>December 16, 1773 - <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Tea-Party">Boston Tea Party</a></li> <li>March through June 1774 - <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/us/9g.asp">Intolerable Acts</a></li> <li>September 25, 1774 - <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.html">First Continental Congress</a> convenes</li> <li>February 9, 1775 - Massachusetts is in a state of rebellion </li> </ul> Even after all of this, let me be clear. The majority of the colonists wanted to reconcile with Great Britain. They didn’t want a revolution or independence. They wanted things to go back to the “salutary neglect” that worked for everyone. The same was true for Great Britain. They didn’t want yet another costly war; they wanted the colonists to go back to being dutiful subjects of the crown. You can’t always get what you want. <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=jv9sDn" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jv9sDn_2XkI" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (CADreamin) 1775 Boston colonialhistory colonists February intolerableacts Massachusetts Onthisdayinhistory Rebellion Revolution ushistory _1833338 Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:00:13 +0000 What A Citizen Is... https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/22/1036559/-What-A-Citizen-Is In order to really investigate this concept, we have to get into our personal time machines, and travel back through time to, say, the 1760's. Let's not do a comparative history of the world of that time, okay? While it might be entertaining, and even informative, it is not really quite necessary for this particular discussion. In the American Colonies, a collaborative yet loose affiliation of thirteen individual corporations (no, really!), were a group of people who had been ever more pressed to submit their production, their labor, and their treasure to the King of England. Comes forward the Stamp Act, and the colonists simply say "Enough!". We could discuss the preceeding impunities against the colonists, but I really just want to set the scene. The growing dissatisfaction with being "subjects" of a King who displayed not only his ignorance of these folks, but his constant disregard for their welfare was the fire under the pot that was slowly rising to a steady, roiling boil. Follow me below the fold, and let's discuss it. rss@dailykos.com (Bud Fields) 1775 Britain Citizen colonies Community Economy Elections England Federalist GreatBritain King Law loyalist National Security NationalSecurity _1036559 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:40:03 +0000 THE STORM https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/8/28/1010730/-THE-STORM I would describe 1775 as a year of significant events; Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill; and then there was the hurricane. One random afternoon that summer, over the bone dry high-pressure incubator that is the 3 ½ million square miles of the Sahara Desert, where the summertime temperature can reach 135 F (57.7 C), a monster was conceived. rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) 1775 History Hurricane Storm _1010730 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:00:45 +0000 THE STORM https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/23/785416/-THE-STORM I would describe 1775 as a year of significant events; Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill; in Germany the last woman was hanged as a witch; and then there was the hurricane. One random afternoon that summer, over the bone dry high pressure incubator that is the 3 ½ million square miles of the Sahara Desert, where the summertime temperature can reach 135 F (57.7 C), a monster was conceived. Of course the Sahara alone, for all its hot breath, cannot produce a monster. * It also requires a midwife - in the case of great Atlantic hurricanes, the Sahel, an Arabic word meaning "shoreline". This is where the sands of the great desert meet the shrub and trees of the savanna. Every April to September, at about 16 degrees north latitude, (the Intra-Tropical Convergence Zone) the hot dry easterly Jet off the Sahara meets the rainy season humidity spining westward over the Sahel, and waves of thunderstorms burst forth from thin air, one after another, with a new wave forming every three to four days. rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) 1775 History Hurricane _785416 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:02:22 +0000