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In looking over "...thousands of pages of records" on this period, Dickerson writes that he couldn't find "a single instance" in enforcement of the Townshend Acts that the British "expressed the remotest interest in promoting the trade of the Empire." It was purely harassment and fundraising for the Empire, and the colonies now had one more solid reason to rebel.

CHAPTER #10: ENGLISH OPINION. While the colonies were rebelling against the new taxation regulations, England was the scene of "a violent controversy" in which people took sides for and against the treatment of the colonies. The bottom line was that everyone in England recognized that the colonies were growing fast, coming of age, and that Americans resented the repression of their "political liberties" (p. 272).

CHAPTER #11: WERE THE NAVIGATION ACTS A CAUSE OF THE REVOLUTION? Dickerson only had to go back and read his own book to answer the question posed at the start of this chapter, but as is his style and approach, he denies that there was any serious opposition with the Navigation Acts per se. Yes, there were objections, he reports, and "the limitations placed upon colonial manufactures were complained of by only a few Americans in New England and the middle colonies" (p. 293).

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Dickerson does admit (p. 295) that the Stamp Act and Townshend Revenue Act caused "organized opposition" (albeit not due to Americans' opposition to trade laws on the high seas) due to the fact that those later acts were actually "revenue laws." The Americans saw these unjust imperial laws as a threat to "their dearly-won powers of self-government" (p. 295). In his.....

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