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Today is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. This rebellion’s roots are perhaps in the French and Indian Wars, which cost the Crown a lot of money. To recoup the cost the Parliament imposed the Stamp Act and the Townsend Acts. The colonists refused to pay the latter, arguing that they had no obligation […]

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