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Originally Posted by stormlion1
There were a few attempts on the part of parliament to address issues in the American Colonys, most of which were window dressing on huge bleeding sores and actually would of done nothing so were shot down by the representatives sent. Other representatives that were sent (The Colonys had no permanent representation, they had the right though to send a embassy to petition parliament though.) actually had orders to shoot down any concessions Parliament made because they wanted to paint the Brits in a bad light.
Just so you know, most of these representatives were from New England.
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This wouldn't surprise me. I'm sure we did our fair share of "agitating."