Wealthy businessmen and rich tenant farmers.
Answer:Spain
Explanation: Portugal said no. But so did spain, but spain then said yes.
The answer is people of the Ghana Empire practicing Islam after interacting with Arab traders
Because it Putnam tax on everything that required paper, including marriage licenses, business papers, stamps, blank paper, and literally anything else you could think of with paper. They found it excessive and an obnoxious insult from the Mother Country that originally kind of left them alone for so long.