Taxes, freedom of speech and power were all things that led up to conflict.
The British devised a new system of Government that brought an uprising led by the rich and by power. The colonists thought that the British should leave their rights alone and not change them, they thought that without Kings they could govern themselves.The colonists admires everything England.
The real power was in the hands of Aristocracy. This power thought that the founding fathers who were George Washington, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, were "insignificant prudentials." They were looked down upon because, even though they were wealthy, they were commoners. Virginia said that they were not respected in England and that they were imposed on because they enforced the Stamp Act in which items with a stamp are taxed. Some people today say that this was one of the "dumbest acts in the history of Governments" and that the "power to tax was the power to destroy."
Friday, October 31, 2008
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