• Dadd Volante
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    52 months ago

    It wasn’t really the taxes, that was their excuse to get the masses to agree to a rebellion.

    The main reason was land. They wanted to expand west to continue growing cotton and tobacco. Kentucky and Tennessee were ripe for cultivation, however, the British empire had made a proclamation in the 1760s saying the colonies were not allowed to expand further into native territory.

    The taxes were a tactic to get the poor people to die for them, so they could get rich off of stealing more land for these crops that destroyed the soil they already had

    • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      02 months ago

      Citation needed. Please show me how you are able to determine the motivation of people who died about 2 centuries before you were born and by the records we have of them show that they argued about everything, hence are unlikely to have a shared conspiratorial vision.

      • Dadd Volante
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        -12 months ago

        I’m sorry you never heard of the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Google is your friend.

        • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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          02 months ago

          Citation needed. Please show me how you are able to determine the motivation of people who died about 2 centuries before you were born and by the records we have of them show that they argued about everything, hence are unlikely to have a shared conspiratorial vision.

          Since you evidently need to be reminded what I asked you not what you wanted me to ask you.

            • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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              22 months ago

              And I am sorry you think you can just lay a massive claim with no evidence to support it.

              Can you even name 5 of the signers without looking it up? No? So how did you mind read them?