CHAPTER 2: THE PLANTING OF ENGLISH AMERICA: 1500—1733

“The British were justified in taxing the Americans and tightening the navigation acts after 1763 because it had been largely British blood and money that was expended in defending the North American colonies in the Great War for Empire, 1754-1763. Lawrence Gibson, Historian, 1930. No American would be allowed west of the Allegheny Mountains. ................
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