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Really? The U.S. was founded on a war with its primary trading partner.
by chrisco255 6y ago
Really? The U.S. was founded on a war with its primary trading partner.
- lostlogin 6y agoThat freight didn’t so much fall overboard as get pushed.
- bpodgursky 6y agoWell, alternatively, the war was (in large part) triggered by Britain _restricting_ open trade via the stamp act / granting a monopoly on tea imports to a single company.
- chrisco255 6y agoThe stamp act was a tax, not a restriction, right? Britain was attempting to recoup losses from the French-Indian War if I'm not mistaken. And the colonists had no say in it and then realized that even after lobbying for years to remove it (hell, the U.S. sent Benjamin Franklin, the best statesman in history and even he couldn't get them to budge), that they would always be subservient to the Crown. The tea imports was just salt on the wound.
- bpodgursky 6y agoYeah, the Tea Act was the monopoly grant. The Stamp Act was just a tax.
- macinjosh 6y agoThat’s not really relevant given the fact the the colonies were subjects of Britain not just their trading partner. It is a little different.
- throwaway_kufu 6y agoThat trading partner wasn’t a democracy. King George has a pretty famous quote acknowledging that if George Washington actually gave up power (as the Presidency required) it would make him the greatest man in the World.