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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop to shore

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brought to you by the stamp act It was going

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so well until somebody left the ink pad open and

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bad things happen All right we'll check out the excerpt

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and act granting applying for stand colony planted And now

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for a question the enactment of the goals expressed in

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the excerpt directly led to what and hear your potential

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answers our emergency help I will let's see what would

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be caused by the british forcing colonists to pay a

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bunch of new taxes happy smiles good feelings joy and

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sunshine Yeah not quite Let's start with b we don't

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mean to be harsh but well be just doesn't make

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sense The stamp act didn't have anything to do with

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britain's european rivals it's not like the brits were trying

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to tax paper in france or spain and if they

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had tried well the french and spanish would've just pointed

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and laughed which wouldn't hurt too much if it was

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just the spanish laughing but french laughter oh we couldn't

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have handled that kind of ridicule all right D doesn't

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work either The british loyalists were already content and in

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place by the time the stand back came along so

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we can cross out d as a matter of fact

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they prided themselves on their organizational prowess They were awarded

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cleanest desks of any movement three years in a row

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All right well let's look at option c The colonists

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weren't huge fans of the whole taxation without representation thing

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so the stamp act didn't end the colonial independence movement

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It fed the fires of the revolution so cross out

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See this makes a the best answer Ultimately the stamp

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act made colonists so unhappy that it inspired the organization

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of rebel groups like the sons of liberty They were

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kind of like the sons of anarchy but with strike

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on hands which if you ask us is way more 00:01:40.196 --> [endTime] today

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