Hipocracy in Colonial America
...Navigation Acts which allowed only English or colonial owned ships inside American ports. Britain also made a law in respect to American exports, requiring all "enumertaed articles" like tobacco to only be exported to England. Great Britain's suppressive regulations on American ports trampled the rights of colonists' God given freedoms. Great Britain's government, in 1765, established a law that forced colonial Americans to take in British troops. This law was called the Quartering Act. The act was created due to lack of funding in England, yet the act itself only affected colonial America, not Great Britain. American families were forced to house and aid British troops who were suppressing their people by squashing rebions which faught the unfair laws of Parliment. The harsh rule of English laws was only worsened by their strict enforcement through military force. Britain's treatment of colonial Americans was angelic when compared to colonists' treatment of native americans. In the summer of 1675 Virginia militiamen ambushed and killed thirty Indians without provication. This was done in Maryland near the Potomac river because ambitious tenant farmers and poor free holders wanted the cheap land that the Indians occupied. Later 1000 militiamen congregated around a Susquehannock villiage, lured four tribal leaders out from their tents by offering peace and then violently murdered the four cheifs. The actions of colonialists towards minority groups were much hanus than the crimes of Britain's high tarrifs. The American government faced some oppositon from Irish immigrants in the form of newspapers and pamphlets that critizised Adams's foreign policy. In 1798, to stop the production of material that went against the American government, and to silence the publishers, the administration created the Alien Act which backed the deportation...