The extent to which economic factors were responsible for the American Revolution cannot easily be measured. At first sight it is natural to attribute the disruption of England’s first empire to a policy avowedly designed to make the oversea settlements ‘duly subservient and useful.’ Yet contemporary English opinion held that the colonies ‘felt the benefit more than the burden* of the Acts of Trade, and the view appears on the whole well-founded. Irksome as their disabilities may seem on paper, the working of the system was not unduly onerous in practice. It was modified by concessions such as those which enabled the colonies to carry on trade direct with southern Europe in certain ‘enumerated commodities,* or it was evaded with the open connivance of the American authorities. This lax administration of the system helped to bring the authority and prestige of the mother country into disrepute; and habitual disregard for the laws of the parent state fostered a spirit of independence, which made any attempt at enforcement of the laws appear a gross act of tyranny.
>INDUPENDENCE >THE PEOPLE HAD GROWN TIRED yeah we've heard seventy five gradrillion times
Angel Morgan
kek
Logan Ortiz
Gotta somehow have $600 a month for rent. Christ. And food? And car insurance and all that other nonsense? Omg I'm freaking. Chain smoker and also two bags a day of dope me. These bills are insane.
