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read following 5 document excerpts, , write 1 well-organized paragraph summarizing reasons many americans felt pushed toward independence.

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document 1

colonist cannot make button, horseshoe, nor hobnail, snootly ironmonger or respectable buttonmaker of england shall bawl , squall honor's worship egregiously maltreated, injured, cheated, , robbed rascally american republicans.

boston gazette, 1765

document 2

have called burthensome tax, because duties numerous , high...that totally impossible people subsist under it....we further apprehend tax unconstitutional. have understood grand , fundamental principle of constitution, no freeman should subject tax has not given own consent, in person or proxy....we take clearly, there fore, inconsistent spirit of common law, , of essential fundamental principle of british constitution, should represented in assembly in sense, unless fiction of law....
resolution of town of braintree, massachusetts, 1765, opposing stamp act

document 3

considering utter impracticability of ever being , equally represented in parliament, , great expense must unavoidably attend partial representation there, house thinks taxation of constituents, without consent, grievous is, preferable representation admitted them there.

circular letter, massachusetts house of representatives, 1768

document 4

if view whole of conduct of ministry , parliament, not see how 1 can doubt there settled fix'd plan enslaving colonies, or bringing them under arbitrary government....if ministry can secure majority in parliament...they may rule absolutely in france or spain, yea in turkey or india....

view situation of america: loaded taxes british parliament, heavy can possibly support under,--our lands charged exorbitant quit rent,--these taxes collected foreigners, steeled against impressions our groans or complaints...our charters taken away--our assemblies annihilated,--governors , councils, appointed royal authority without concurrence of people, enacting such laws sovereign pleasure shall dictate...the lives , property of americans entirely @ disposal of officers more 3 thousand miles removed power control them--armies of soldiers quartered among inhabitants, know horrid purpose stationed, in colonies--to subjugate , beat down inhabitants....

reverend ebenezer baldwin, 1774

document 5

have heard asserted some, america hath flourished under former connection great britain, same connection necessary toward future happiness, , have same effect. nothing can more fallacious kind of argument....

not 1 third of inhabitants, of province [pennsylvania] of english descent. wherefore reprobate phrase of parent or mother country applied england only, being false, selfish, narrow , ungenerous....

injuries , disadvantages sustain connection without number; , our duty mankind @ large, ourselves, instruct renounce alliance: because, submission to, or dependence on great britain, tends directly involve continent in european wars , quarrels; , sets @ variance nations, otherwise seek our friendship, , against whom, have neither anger nor complaint. europe our market trade, ought form no partial connection part of it....

[continued british rule lead to] ruin of continent. , several reasons. first. powers of governing still remaining in hands of king, have negative on whole legislation of continent. , hath shown himself such inveterate enemy liberty, , discovered such thirst arbitrary power; he, or not, proper man these colonies, "you shall make no laws please"....secondly. best terms, can expect obtain, can amount no more temporary expedient, or kind of government guardianship, can last no longer till colonies come of age, general face , state of things, in interim, unsettled , unpromising....

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