From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #13589 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, April 2 2024 Volume 14 : Number 13589 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Did you receive your package? ["Costco Rewads" Subject: Did you receive your package? Did you receive your package? http://articblast.best/HQY_Su1HPWAEGkoq16R68NZvWgXG0lwXNfBmluw1bJqtXHso http://articblast.best/idn_Md4IR5a2Agg0xeZbv_9uS5EifoCIEbTo0B6mbcvdiBsV7Q egan in the 1760s with sporadic acts of rebellion by American colonists, but it intensified and gained momentum as American colonists' rage grew over taxes being levied on them by the British Parliament, a body in which they had no direct representation, and by exploitive British trade policies that were designed to intertwine the economies of the American colonies with Britain in ways that benefited the British monarchy and increased the colonies' dependence on it. Intellectual advocates of the American Revolution, including Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and others, wrote and spoke persuasively in support of the ideals of the American Revolution, which enhanced support for it in the colonies and abroad. In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which imposed taxes on official documents, newspapers and magazines, and most things printed in the colonies, leading to colonial protest and resulting in representatives from several colonies convening the Stamp Act Congress in New York City to plan a response. The British repealed the Stamp Act, alleviating tensions briefly but they flared again in 1767 with Parliament's passage of the Townshend Acts, a group of new taxes and regulations imposed on the thirteen colonies. In an effort to quell the mounting rebellion in the colonies, which was particularly severe in Massachusetts, King George III deployed troops to Boston, leading to the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. The British government subsequently repealed most of the Townshend duties in 1770, but it retained its tax on tea in order to symbolically assert Parliament's right to tax the colonies. The Thirteen Colonies responded assertively, first burning the Gaspee in Rhode Island in 1772, and then launching the Boston Tea Party in Boston H ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #13589 ***********************************************