Learn how the British Empire's crackdown on the colonists included passing the Massachusetts Government Act of 1774, which revoked the long standing Massachusetts Charter. The act eliminated representative government in Massachusetts and installed a military commander (General Gage) as a near dictator answerable only to King George III. Explore how the other colonial legislative assemblies were suspended, crushing the republican form of government. Discover how the Declaratory Act of 1766 declared that the English Parliament could impose its will on all of the colonies "in all cases whatsoever," which in essence rendered the People of the colonies the slaves of an unaccountable empire 3000 miles away. 

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