This is <em>exactly</em> what we are learning in History at our school too.
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The colonists protested taxation by: Colonists would boycott British goods; why did they boycott British goods? Because the colonists weren't happy with Great Britain because of the French and Indian War; Great Britain had to pay the war debts.
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By 1880, the transcontinental railroad was transporting $50 million worth of freight each year. In addition to transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast, the railroad also facilitated international trade.
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They were scrapped, as Britain and France hanged up against Wilson to pressurise him into dropping them.