HIST 2055 : History 2055 Exam 2 Notes
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The drift toward revolution: stamp act (1765-1766) occurred because americans protested tax on printed items. Marriage license, playing cards, books, required embossed seal representing payment of stamp tax: mock funerals of liberty ; rhetoric of slavery felt they were owned in a manner that reminded them of slavery. Felt servility. (magnanimity: colonists attempt to resort to non-importation, boston massacre (1770) british soldiers moved to boston claim to defend colonists from attack. Actually there to make colonist submit to the will of england royalty: boston tea party (1773) principle that only locally elected legislature can make them pay taxes. Redcoats were going to take ammunition and arrest leaders of the movement. Paul revere was only one of the people who rode around to warn others of the regulars. Revere was captured by the british and then held. Dawes (other guy sent to warn those in concord) made it to concord successfully.
