Summary Of Empire And Resistance And The Crash Couse

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Everything discussed in Chapter 6: Empire and Resistance and the Crash Couse video Taxes & Smuggling accrued between 1760 and 1777. This was the period where the colonies distrust in the crown reached its maximum point. It started with the Stamp Act which was imposed by the Parliament and Prime Minister in 1764 to help pay for the French and Indian war. This act made it so all official documents such as newspapers, books, obituaries and anything else that needed to be done on paper had to have a stamp from England, which was taxed. It wasn’t the tax itself that angered the colonist, it was the fact that they were taxed without any consolation. “Taxation without representation” (Crash Couse). Then there was the Boston Massacre where a snowball

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