Inevitability Of Independence

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interested in making money. England was making it increasingly difficult for these men to get richer. In 1765 a document called “Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress” was written. Within it the colonists pointed out several discrepancies in their governing powers, one of which was this excerpt.
IX. That the duties imposed by several late Acts of Parliament, from the peculiar circumstances of these colonies, will be extremely burdensome and grievous; and
from the scarcity of specie, the payment of them absolutely impracticable.The powerful men of America certainly felt that they were not going to be able to make money, in fact from what they told the British government, they stood to lose money.They also felt that they might not only lose the ability to make money but also the ability to survive. This next excerpt is from the 1775 “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms”The commercial intercourse of whole colonies, with foreign countries, and with each ...

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