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How America Took a Great Leap of Faith Toward Democracy and Independence
So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...
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Why Faneuil Hall Is the Perfect Metaphor for the American Revolution’s Complicated Definition of Liberty - Smithsonian Magazine
Throughout the 1760s, patriots met there to protest royal taxes, and in 1773, Samuel Adams initiated the Boston Tea Party from the hall’s lectern.