Great Britain colonized areas of North America. They imposed a system of mercantilism, this gave them a monopoly on raw materials from the colonies which they would later use to create products and sell them back to colonists. The French and Indian War put Great Britain in debt, so parliament decided to tax the colonists to pay for the war. Great Britain continued to exert their control over the colonists which created tension between them.
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Thoreau was fervently against slavery and actively worked for abolitionism. Where, he participated in the Underground Railroad and in opposition with the popular opinion of the time. Two weeks after the ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry and in the weeks leading up to Brown's execution, Thoreau regularly delivered a speech to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts in which he compared the US government to Pontius Pilate.</span>
