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wasn't it just a bunch of rich immigrants who didn't want to pay increased taxes so they rebelled because they're greedy awholes? |
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"wasn't it just a bunch of rich immigrants who didn't want to pay increased taxes so they rebelled because they're greedy awholes?"
LOL
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DiskerudJoin Date: 2014-02-17
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"wasn't it just a bunch of rich immigrants who didn't want to pay increased taxes so they rebelled because they're greedy awholes?"
no lol
it was actually the opposite
might want to go hit your history book |
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123yonndTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-07-19
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It was mainly these three King George plans for the American colonies.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Revolution started as the colonists felt they were held to a much lesser value than mainland Brits in England. It's kinda similar to how UK treated Ireland but to a much lesser extent of prejudice. |
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Camboo6Join Date: 2011-02-04
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hey even i know this from S.S.
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DiskerudJoin Date: 2014-02-17
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The quartering act was basically just England's way of quashing any threat of revolution
Soldiers were sent as spies
And we can't forget the Boston "massacre" that popularized the revolution movement
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10 more years and it will be a quarter of a millennium
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"That's why they call it the American Dream: because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin | This is my siggy. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
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"wasn't it just a bunch of rich immigrants who didn't want to pay increased taxes so they rebelled because they're greedy awholes?"
What happened was that the colonists were sick of being taxed without being represented in any political action that Britain took, and then the British King did some things that triggered them to the point of rebellion. |
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Something Something, Alexander Hamilton. Something Something, King George breakup songs to the colonies. |
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i like new sweden, colonized the usa, and the duchy of courland colonized tobago |
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"What happened was that the colonists were sick of being taxed without being represented in any political action that Britain took, and then the British King did some things that triggered them to the point of rebellion."
yeah but they were still british at that point and the us was just a british colony so they really couldn't complain.
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But they did complain, and they succeeded.
I'm quite sure you'd do the same if you were a British colony that had no say in their own politics, yet were taxed and eventually targeted by new colonial policies specifically designed to screw you even more. Fortunately for you, you got to wait another 100 years or so until you became a legitimate British colony that wasn't exclusively a punishment via penal transportation, and by then the British had realized that they shot themselves in the foot by trying to screw the Yankees. |
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