"Making a Revolution"

This blog will expand on what Anna said about the documentary called “Making a Revolution”. The first question talks about the Albany Plan.  The colonies wanted a way to protect themselves, so they tried to make a military defense system.  They needed money for it, so they made the Albany Plan to get the colonies to work together to pay for the military defense of the colonies.  This plan was sent to all the colonies to sign, but not one signed it.  This was because they didn't think of themselves as one team, they thought of themselves as from their own colony instead of Americans.  Then the documentary talked about the Proclamation of 1763.  This made it so the colonists couldn't expand west because the British didn't want a war since they had just finished the French and Indian war.  So they sent British troops onto a line they create that the colonists couldn't cross.  This limited the colonists’ freedom to get land, and they had to pay for the troops to be there even though they didn't want them there.  This was through taxes that came from British Parliament which was the first time they had been taxed directly from Parliament.  Then the documentary talked about the writs of assistance which were searches warrants. This was established because British were concerned with colonists smuggling trade with the French. The British didn't like this because the French were their enemies at the time.  The colonists were upset because they had always smuggled trade and the British never said anything, and out of nowhere they decided to enforce the law.  Also this was one of the ways most people made a lot of their money, so the colonists were infuriated.