. New England, old and new; a brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of promise . restric-tive law, which aimed to give English ships monopoly inEnglish trade, was not abolished till 1849. The Navigation Ads, annulling the charter of Massa-chusetts in 1648, the tyrannous rule and final overthrow ofSir Edmund Andros as Viceroy of New England, in 1689,the eredion of Massachusetts into a royal province whichincluded Plymouth, Maine, and Arcadia, the Stamp Ad,the import duties— these were the seeds of the Revolution!Inasmuch as
. New England, old and new; a brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of promise . restric-tive law, which aimed to give English ships monopoly inEnglish trade, was not abolished till 1849. The Navigation Ads, annulling the charter of Massa-chusetts in 1648, the tyrannous rule and final overthrow ofSir Edmund Andros as Viceroy of New England, in 1689,the eredion of Massachusetts into a royal province whichincluded Plymouth, Maine, and Arcadia, the Stamp Ad,the import duties— these were the seeds of the Revolution!Inasmuch as the war with the French in America hadbeen largely beneficial to the colonies — their war. In fad— both parliament and the king decided that the coloniesshould be taxed to support the army of ten thousand menwhich the enlarged dominions required. They would have preferred that the colonies lay thenecessary taxes; but there was no general assembly of thecolonies with which the home government could this, experience had shown that each colony wasalways unwilling to make a grant for the common serviceof the colonists as a TT/HIRR, whirr, whirr sang therr old colonial spinning wheels —•humble predecessors of the great powerlooms of present-day New England. 34 New England — Old and New Import Duties Duty on TeaRetained It was accordingly thought that the only authority towhich all the colonies would bow was that of the Britishparliament. In 1765, therefore, parliament passed a StampA<5t which was calculated to raise about a hundred thousandpounds. The stamped papers were to be used for all legaldocuments. The colonists refused to accept the stamped papers andattacked the officers whose duty it was to distribute 1766 this a6t was repealed; but the repeal was accom-panied by a Declaratory Ad: which asserted the right ofthe British parliament to tax the colonies, as well as tolegislate for them. The following year an ad of parliament levied
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