Something had to happen in social, economic and political thought to move a people from idle chit-chat to general thought to action and that straw happened to be the taxes levied after 1763 in the form of several acts passes by the English parliament. ... When England's government started to levy taxes at the American colonies the societies reaction was that they were having their freedom taken away, and to the social mind work that was increasingly forming this was the biggest of grievances that could have occurred. A parliament which did not have a an American representative was w...

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