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Month: November 2015

A World of Paine

Posted on 12 November 201511 May 2023 by Historical Notionist

A review of a chapter title A World of Paine, in the book, Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation by various authors, published in 2011. This text was written as part of a volunteer audio visual presentation featuring Thomas Paine for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in 2015. Revolutionary Founders…

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This Day In History

Colonial Unrest
1773 The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. It maintains a threepenny per pound import tax on tea arriving in the colonies, which had already been in effect for six years. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
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