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Losing the Colonies

By the time George became king, British monarchs (kings and queens) had lost much of their power to Parliament. Parliament was the group of lawmakers in Britain. Beginning in the 1760s Parliament tried to raise money by taxing the American colonies. The colonists complained that Parliament had no right to tax them because they had no representatives in it. In 1775 George announced that the colonists were committing treason, the crime of betraying one’s country. In the same year, the colonists began fighting for independence. In the U.S. Declaration of Independence,… Illness and Death


George III founded the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768.
