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  • Dadd Volante@sh.itjust.workstoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldBased
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    2 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