“Save Your Money, and Save Your Country!”

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“Save Your Money,and Save Your Country!”
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Abstract

By 1767, both the American colonies and the British government had learned lessons from the failure of the Stamp Act a few years before. The colonists had discovered that a united opposition could win recognition of their right to dispose of their own property in ways they chose. The British government assumed that even if the colonies would not accept a direct tax, as the Stamp Act had been, they would accept import and export taxes. They were wrong.

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