Colonists thought that they were due (deserved) the same rights as Englishmen had in the mother country. True or False

True.

Explanation:

Colonists in the early stages of America moved there to find religious freedom and many more freedoms and rights to come to be expected. They expected to have access to equal rights and laws in America as in England. When they weren't treated with equality within rights and laws, they started a war, the Revolutionary War to name.

they gained control over the philippines, east dutch indies/indonesia, much of new guinea, the solomon islands, guam, and other strategic areas all over the western pacific. japan even occupied part of the aleutian islands, which belonged to alaska.

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