CHAPTER 14
LEVEL TWELVE: COMMAND AND CONTROL
With the introduction of the Townshend Acts, the British Crown turns up the heat on the American colonists; impinging on their freedom and oppressing them with yet more taxation, taxation that is of course without representation. Fired with En- lightenment ideals and a strong reluctance to give up their hard-earned cash and independence, once-loyal colonists began to whisper of revolution. We will trace the cause and effect relationships in this rapid decline of British-American rela- tions.
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