A Stamp Of Disapproval By David Saxon - 1200 Words

A Stamp of Disapproval Written By: David Saxon â€Å"No taxation without representation† is being chanted through the colonies as of late, the Parliament of Great Britain has fed more fuel to the fire of the colonists, The Stamp acts have been introduced and many colonists do not agree. Now that the Seven Years’ War is over the Royal Crown is in debt. After the war Prime Minister, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, decided to keep 10,000 British Soldiers in the colonies which would cost  £225,000 a year. One of the reasons of why the Prime Minister would do this is that demobilizing the troops would put 1,500 soldiers out of a job, it is believed some of these soldiers have ties into parliament. The national debt went from  £72,289,673 in 1756 to†¦show more content†¦Protests were breaking out in the streets of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. We don’t know what the future holds but we do know that the colonists are growing impatient and unhappy. I can assure you this, more violence and protest will come. A Bloody Massacre in the Streets of Boston Written by: David Saxon More death, murder, and violence have hit the streets of the colonies. British soldiers shot and killed a mob attacking them. This has only caused more unrest in the colonies and the tension between the American Colonist and the British is at an all-time high. Boston has been the center of many acts of resistance to the taxation acts. In 1768, the Townshend Acts were unveiled and were met with immediate protests stating that it was against the colonist constitutional rights. This led the Massachusetts House of Representatives to fight the Townshend Acts. They sent a petition to King George III asking to remove the acts. They also sent a letter to other colonial representative assemblies, asking them to help them and join the protests, and called for a boycott of imported goods. On the night of March 5, 1770, Hugh White, a British soldier, was standing guard outside the Custom house on King Street, todayShow MoreRelatedOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pageslike to acknowledge the contribution of many others to its development. We would like to express our thanks to Jacqueline Senior, who was our original commissioning editor, and to Matthew Walker, who took over that role. We also would wish to thank David Cox and Stuart Hay, who have been our development editors. Their contribution to the pedagogic shaping of the text challenged many of our initial assumptions about the nature of a ‘textbook’ on organization theory and have enabled us to produce whatRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pages(Prentice Hall, 2012) Management, 11th ed. with Mary Coulter (Prentice Hall, 2012) Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 10th ed., wit h David DeCenzo (Wiley, 2010) Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment Library 3.4 (Prentice Hall, 2010) Fundamentals of Management, 8th ed., with David DeCenzo and Mary Coulter (Prentice Hall, 2013) Supervision Today! 7th ed., with David DeCenzo and Robert Wolter (Prentice Hall, 2013) Training in Interpersonal Skills: TIPS for Managing People at Work, 6th ed., with Phillip