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Excerpt from Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769 1766; A Historical Romance
Act had been repealed, and the irritation produced by that act had been allayed. It was a period of quiet and rest. The colonists still regarded themselves as Englishmen and loyal to the crown. Information came that His Majesty George III. Was determined to maintain his right to tax the Colonies by imposing an export duty on tea, to be paid by the exporter, who, in turn, would charge it to the consumer. The first resistance to that claim was the agreement of all but six of the merchants of Boston not to import tea from England, and the agreement of their wives and daughters not to drink tea so imported. It was a resistance which had its outcome in the destruction of three cargoes of tea by the historic tea-party, a resistance which became equally effective in the other Colonies, if less dramatic than in Boston. The determination of the mothers and daughters to ab stain from its use brought about a change in social life, and was in?uential in awakening a public senti ment which had its legitimate outcome in the events at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill.
There were causes other than the Stamp Act, Writs of Assistance, and the Tax on Tea, which brought about the Revolution.
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