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==== English ==== | ==== English ==== | ||
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|+ British Leaders | |||
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! Leader|| Dates || Policy | |||
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| Pitt the Elder|| prosecution of Seven Years War | |||
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| Lord Bute|| 1760-1763|| mild reform | |||
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| George Grenville|| 1763-1765 | strong reform | |||
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| Lord Rockingham|| 1765-1766 || conciliation | |||
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| William Pitt (the younger) & Charles Townshend|| 1766-1770 || strong reform | |||
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| Lord North || 1770-1782 || coercive | |||
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English leaders who played important roles in the American Revolution | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Grenville|Prime Minister (head of Parliamant), asserted British sovereignty over colonies and led various enforcement and tax laws through Parliament, including the Sugar Act; Grenville's tax policies shifted British tax policy away from mercantilism towards revenue-raising}}</ul> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord North|}}</ul> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Charles Townshend|succeeded Grenville}}</ul> | |||
==== American Revolutionary Era leaders ==== | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Adams|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Adams|}}</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Samuel Adams|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Samuel Adams|}}</ul> | ||
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}}</ul> | }}</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Benjamin Franklin|as scientist and successful publisher, the most famous American in his day; up until final moments before war, was always conciliatory to the British, accepting of British rule, and sought compromise; however, stood firm for colonial rights, including representation in Parliament; was early thinker about colonial union, esp. given experience as Postmaster of the colonies (Albany Plan); Franklin was an "Enlightenment" thinker who sought to explain the world through reason; this led him to "deism" (see entry)}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Benjamin Franklin|as scientist and successful publisher, the most famous American in his day; up until final moments before war, was always conciliatory to the British, accepting of British rule, and sought compromise; however, stood firm for colonial rights, including representation in Parliament; was early thinker about colonial union, esp. given experience as Postmaster of the colonies (Albany Plan); Franklin was an "Enlightenment" thinker who sought to explain the world through reason; this led him to "deism" (see entry)}}</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Paine|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Paine|}}</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Washington|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Washington|}}</ul> | ||
== American Revolution flowcharts == | == American Revolution flowcharts == | ||