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Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution: Crash Course US History #6

1. So in order to pay for the [Seven Years War], the British decided to raise taxes, and, since the primary beneficiaries of the war had been the American ________________________, the British government felt it was only fair if some of the burden fell to them.




2. So the taxes themselves weren’t really the [Colonists’] problem; it was their lack of Parliamentary ____________.




3. The Stamp Act declared that all _____________________ material had to carry a stamp. Unsurprisingly, that stamp was not free.




4. Committees of correspondence, which had been created to encourage opposition to earlier acts, now grew to coordinate the _______________________ efforts…




5. Overall, boycotts and protests were effective, and British merchants pushed for the repeal of these acts, leaving only a tax on ______________.




6. But the tea partiers miscalculated, thinking that the British would back down in response to their protest. Instead, the British responded by passing a series of acts that colonists came to call the “___________________________ Acts.”





7. …it’s not an exaggeration to say that the First Continental Congress was the first ________________ of America.




8. The war between colonists and Britain began in 1775 - on April 19th to be exact - when fighting broke out between the British soldiers and Massachusetts _____________ men, the minute men, at Concord and Lexington.




9. Anyway, people like Ingles reminds us that not everyone in the colonies was all fired up to be an ______________________________ nation.




10. But anyway America eventually declared independence for many reasons, but ______________________ persuasive arguments [in Common Sense] were one important reason…

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Answer; 1. American of untied states and the British government felt it was only fair if some of the burden fell to them.

Answer; 2 it was their lack of Parliamentary was American country.

Answer;3 The stamp act declared that all citizens need's material to carry a stamp . Unsurprisingly that stamp was not free.

Answer; 4 Committees of correspondence, which had been created to encourage opposition to earlier acts, now grew to coordinate the actor's efforts.

Answer; 5 Overall, boycotts and protests were effective , and British merchants pushed for the repeal of these acts, leaving only a tax on paying bills .

Answer 6; But the tea partiers miscalculated, thinking that the British would back down in response to their protest. Instead, the British responded by passing a series of acts that colonists came to call "British Acts.”

Answer; 7 it’s not an exaggeration to say that the First Continental Congress was the first United States of America.

Answer; 8. The war between colonists and Britain began in 1775 - on April 19th to be exact - when fighting broke out between the British soldiers and Massachusetts _____________ men, the minute men, at Concord and Lexington.

Answer; 9. Anyway, people like Ingles reminds us that not everyone in the colonies was all fired up to be an illegal citizen nation.

Answer: 10. But anyway America eventually declared independence for many reasons, but their persuasive arguments [in Common Sense] were one important reason.

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