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-Decides Americans should pay taxes to get the out of debt. -Loyalists would follow the rules no matter what
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They refused to buy british goods.
Pamphlet writers wrote angry essays.
Tarred and feathered (royal government workers)
They hung a dummy that looked like someone who sold stamps.
They burned tax stamps they were supposed to buy. -
-Were against the stamp and sugar acts. They were already paying taxes for their own debts and didn't feel it was fair to pay twice. -They thought it was illegal because English law said "No taxation without representation". This means that there should be no taxes without their own representative.
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Patriots said liberty, or freedom, was dead.
Nobody would buy the stamps -
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Parliament adds even more taxes to prove they aren't afraid.
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They make their own goods.
Patriots met anyway (Virginians nmet anyway and banned british taxed goods)
They snuck in untaxed goods from other countries. -