@freydog201; The British opened up to representation of the Americans, they denied sending any because they would still have been outvoted. And I learned that in American school.
That's actually historically wrong. The Americans WANTED to be neglected again and England started becoming more of a father figure by setting rules and such.
Bgirl22 -The reason we started the american revolution was not because of high taxes, it was about representation in parliament. Hence the saying "no taxation without representation". How would you feel if someone was passing laws that you needed to follow, and you never got a say in the matter?
Yeah funny thing(ok not so funny) is that's what our current government is doing to us now yet we do nothing about it. Do you actually believe that those in government give a crap about us? All they want is to keep their jobs which means doing what the corporations, which are now people according to the Supreme Court, that bought them want them to do. And before y'all start with the you're free to leave crap, know this I don't want to leave I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!
Sam Adams was not Dutch, good sir. The tea rules were bullish*t ones that basically gave the British East India Company an unfair advantage over everyone else (EIC tea was made terribly cheap). And the royal governor of Massachusetts said that until the tax was paid, none of the tea would be shipped away. Sound rather unfair to me.
The tea was thrown not because of representation. The Americans were big tea drinkers, so a brisk trade in smuggled Dutch tea was rampant throughout the colonies. British tea was nowhere to be purchased. The Crown decided to be clever, they repealed the tax on tea coming into Britain, and put a very small tax on tea coming into the colonies. The result was that the British tea would undersell the smuggled Dutch tea. So the Dutch smugglers trashed the British tea so they wouldn't be undercut.
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Whoa... what happened to America's shirt in the second frame 0.0