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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
|-
|}
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><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: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:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord North|}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Paine|}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Paine|}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Charles Townshend|succeeded Grenville}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Washington|}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Washington|}}</ul>
==== American ====


== American Revolution flowcharts ==
== American Revolution flowcharts ==