Contents Colonial discontentment grew with the passage of the 1773 Tea Act which reduced taxes on tea sold by the East India Company in an effort to undercut competition and Prime Minister North's ministry hoped that this would establish a precedent of colonists accepting British taxation policies Trouble escalated over the tea tax as Americans in each colony boycotted the tea and those in Boston dumped the tea in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 when the Sons of Liberty dumped thousands of pounds of tea into the water Tensions escalated in 1774 as Parliament passed the laws known as the Intolerable Acts which greatly restricted self-government in the colony of Massachusetts These laws also allowed British military commanders to claim colonial homes for the quartering of soldiers regardless whether the American civilians were willing or not to have soldiers in their homes the laws further revoked colonial rights to hold trials in cases involving soldiers or crown officials forcing such trials to be held in England rather than in America Parliament also sent Thomas Gage to serve as Governor of Massachusetts and as the commander of British forces in North America. . The British and colonists triumphed jointly over a common foe the colonists' loyalty to the mother country was stronger than ever before However disunity was beginning to form British Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder had decided to wage the war in the colonies with the use of troops from the colonies and tax funds from Britain itself This was a successful wartime strategy but after the war was over each side believed that it had borne a greater burden than the other the British elite the most heavily taxed of any in Europe pointed out angrily that the colonists paid little to the royal coffers the colonists replied that their sons had fought and died in a war that served European interests more than their own This dispute was a link in the chain of events that soon brought about the American Revolution, Song: "Georgia on My Mind" The interior of the High 2.1 Committees In the Southern U.S the belief mirroring the common belief in Europe that the family had the responsibility of educating their children Wealthy families either used tutors and governesses from Britain or sent children to school in England By the 1700s university students based in the colonies began to act as tutors. One of the entrances to the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech's Tech Tower Decatur pop 19,335. . . Communications: Motorola Digital 800 MHz Trunking system that is one of the largest in the country and utilizes 24 channels This system provides voice and data communications for the Atlanta Police Fire Watershed Corrections and other Municipal Departments the Atlanta Police Radio System also provides voice and data communications for the Georgia State Patrol inside of the Atlanta Metropolitan area and the City of Hapeville the City of East Point and the City of College Park.
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