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All men who have come to know liberty celebrate it. Each generation learns that it can be lost through neglect and complacency. Today we salute two hundred years of vigilant independence for these United States of America. ' e-iQi WvL A. RUD!S!LL LIBRARY LENOIR RHYNE COLLEGE
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C f We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. Edmund Burke 17fi6 If one were to isolate a single incident which precipitated colonial America ' s struggle for in- dependence, it would be the Stamp Act of 1765. If there was a point of no return, it occurred with the Olive Branch petition of 1775. This ten-year period marked a time in which a nation was fash- ioned, forged in the heat of frustration on the anvil of the North American continent. An overwhelming problem facing the British Crown in the 1760 ' s was the financial strain placed upon the English people — a strain furthered, in part, by the rnaintenance of British troops in the American colonies. The steady expansion westward called for even more troops to protect and secure this new land. British Stamp Tax Seal 1765 In 1765, by royal proclamation. King George III closed all land west of the Alleghenies to further immigration and expansion. Parliament, in order to force the colonies to pay their fair share for protection, passed the Stamp Act. Although this tax on documents and legal papers amounted only to £60,000 a year, there was instant outcry from the colonies against this internal tax. Many felt that it was one more burden in a list of repressive acts by the Crown. Fear also existed among English creditors that colonial merchants and planters could not meet their debts and pay this additional tax as well. The seeds of discontent were spreading through the colonies farther and faster than anyone ex- pected. New problems of enforcing the taxes, conducting trials, and meting out punishments all brought further alarm. In Boston, Phila- delphia, New York, Charleston, and even in Williamsburg, apprehension began to run high. In a fiery speech before the House of Burgesses May 29, 1765, months before the Stamp Act was to go into effect, Patrick Henry shook the spire of the Capitol with his verbal assault against the Crown. Many cautious men who heard it, including a young lawyer named Rebellious Stripes Flag When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political b
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