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Rich, you're being a little disingenuous here, the Stamp Act was just one cog in the gear that led up to the Revolutionary War. The Stamp Act was the first in a series of events in the colonies, there was the Townshend Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea party and the straw that broke the camels back was the Intolerable Acts in 1774. Intolerable Acts included the the Quartering Act (which upset the majority of colonist), Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act and the Massachusetts Government Act, these acts were aimed at breaking the colonist resolve, which we know now did work out very well for the British.
 
Terryj said:
Rich, you're being a little disingenuous here, the Stamp Act was just one cog in the gear that led up to the Revolutionary War. The Stamp Act was the first in a series of events in the colonies, there was the Townshend Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea party and the straw that broke the camels back was the Intolerable Acts in 1774. Intolerable Acts included the the Quartering Act (which upset the majority of colonist), Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act and the Massachusetts Government Act, these acts were aimed at breaking the colonist resolve, which we know now did work out very well for the British.
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It's wasn't popular that's for sure, but it's unpopularity was most acute amongst those affected, which were the wealthy middle classes. They saw an opportunity and stirred up nationalistic, revolutionary fervor amongst ordinary colonists, who never had to pay this tax

A parallel can be made to the US Civil War - Northern attempts to ban slavery (plus the increasing number of non-slave states) threatened the wealthy southern middle classes, who stoked up nationalistic fervor with the southern dirt farmers, who had no slaves and were thus as unaffected as the ordinary colonists with the Stamp Act.
 
Terryj said:
Rich, you're being a little disingenuous here, the Stamp Act was just one cog in the gear that led up to the Revolutionary War. The Stamp Act was the first in a series of events in the colonies, there was the Townshend Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea party and the straw that broke the camels back was the Intolerable Acts in 1774. Intolerable Acts included the the Quartering Act (which upset the majority of colonist), Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act and the Massachusetts Government Act, these acts were aimed at breaking the colonist resolve, which we know now did work out very well for the British.
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He knows this.

Part of his trolling schtick is to argue against historical facts.
 
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