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relationship between gods and goddesses

While the Declaration of Independence was the most eloquent statement of Americans’ grievances against Britain, the grievances themselves had been created by earlier events such as the Proclamation of 1763, and The Intolerable Acts of 1774. Of these two, the Intolerable Acts was probably more decisive in creating the conditions for revolution.

After The Seven Years War, land-greedy colonists were eager to move across the Appalachian mountain into the Ohio Valley now that it was free of the French. Unfortunately for them, the British government had at the same time been setting out to implement new governing structures over their new territories. In 1763 Britain passed the Proclamation Act. - We do therefore, with the Advice of our Privy Council, declare it to be our Royal Will and Pleasure, that no Governor or Commander in Chief in any of our Colonies of Quebec, East Florida. or West Florida, do presume, upon any Pretence whatever, to grant Warrants of Survey, or pass any Patent...

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