A Revolutionary Experience

Fight back at inflation and monopoly control

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This week we celebrate the 249th anniversary of “The Shot Heard Around the World.”

Events Leading Up to the American Revolution

Did you know that the American Revolution didn’t begin when the first shot was fired at Lexington Green in 1775? They started the revolution shortly after the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) because the British wanted them to pay taxes to pay what the crown felt was their fair share of the war debt that Britain had acquired.

The British tried to use taxes to collect the revenues from the Americans to pay those debts. However, Americans didn’t like that idea, so they did what they could to prevent the crown from getting any of that money.

Before and during the American Revolution Americans refused to purchase items taxed from Great Britain. The British tried to require that Americans buy their goods only through British companies. There was the Stamp Act which required that all goods have a royal stamp if they were to be sold. This didn’t sit well with the American public so the idea of the Stamp Act ended. They tried other ways to deal with the tax deficit. They also refused to provide military for the frontier as a way to keep expenses down. The next thing…