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Before the American Revolution numerous events changed the way America is today. Two of these major events were pluralism and salutary neglect. In the early 1700’s America was a society in which many particular, racial or cultural groups, co-existed in one nation, also known as Pluralism. Immigrants such as French Protestants who settled in cities along the coast, Jews from Portuguese colonies who set up synagogues in the major port cities, Catholics who made homes …

…overboard. Later in 1774, Parliament passed a series of procedures designed to discip- line the colonist. They closed the port of Boston until the city paid for the demo- lished tea. At the same time, the Quartering Act allowed British commanders to station troops in private homes, and the Quebec Act put much of the Ohio River Valley into the province of Quebec. Colonists called these measures the Intolerable acts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** i have no idea!