1. History of the American Revolution
The British now targeted the two people that had begun the revolution, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. ... He followed the profound thought of Adam Smith, the "Father of Modern Economics" also attacked mercantilism in 1766. Smith, "To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in a way that they judge most advantages to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind." While John Hancock, who was a smuggler in Boston represented the rich, who opposed the British because...
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