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The scapegoats—outsiders, immigrants, minorities, 'deviants'—are then persecuted, enabling the scapegoaters to discharge and distract from their negative feelings, which are replaced or overtaken by a crude but consoling sense of affirmation and self-righteous indignation.
Explanation:
They taxed the colonists without them being represented in the gov.
The Age of Enlightenment played a strong role in American independence since it was the time in which philosophers such as John Locke began to question the divine authority of monarchical rule, and started to believed that the people should be in charge of their government.
