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Forum Index > Society & Lifestyles > History | >> What would it be like if we (Americans) didn't get our independence? | | |
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Kristy69
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Join Date: Feb 2009 | alexkidd said:
I guess it was cause everyone got sick of paying tax to people who were thousands of miles away.
Well we're still dealing with that.  Only DC just 7-10 miles away from me.
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WASH
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Join Date: Dec 2008 | Kristy69 said:
Why did we do it in the first place? Was it THAT bad?
And what do you think our live's would be like if we hadn't?
I'm going into APUSH (AP US History) next year, and I would just like some input. 
Look to the North. We could be an independent comonwealth of Great Britain.
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mr_ash
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Join Date: Sep 2007 | Kristy69 said:
Why did we do it in the first place? Was it THAT bad?
And what do you think our live's would be like if we hadn't?
I'm going into APUSH (AP US History) next year, and I would just like some input.
Not that it's really on topic Kristy. I'm not a massive expert on US history. However, I've read enough information to convince me that if the first settlers had done it a 100 years or so earlier, that you all would be speaking either a different language, or at least a dialect that would trouble the average modern English speaker.
That's only my speculation though.
I have CDO.
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Kristy69
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16/F/Underneath the Cyanide Sun...,
Join Date: Feb 2009 | mr_ash said:
Not that it's really on topic Kristy. I'm not a massive expert on US history. However, I've read enough information to convince me that if the first settlers had done it a 100 years or so earlier, that you all would be speaking either a different language, or at least a dialect that would trouble the average modern English speaker.
That's only my speculation though.
That's interesting, though.
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iwannano
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49/F/Mountainair area, New Mexico
Join Date: Mar 2008 | Kristy69 said:
Why did we do it in the first place? Was it THAT bad?
And what do you think our live's would be like if we hadn't?
I'm going into APUSH (AP US History) next year, and I would just like some input.
I am not going to answer your questions , I just want to point out that ,
We didn't 'get' our freedom , we won our freedom . The word 'get' makes it sound like someone went to walmart and picked it up for us. While using the correct word ' won' makes it plain that it was fought for in a war that was hard won and carried a heavy price.
Won't work/Ta-Ta!!
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
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mr_ash
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Join Date: Sep 2007 | iwannano said:
I am not going to answer your questions , I just want to point out that ,
We didn't 'get' our freedom , we won our freedom . The word 'get' makes it sound like someone went to walmart and picked it up for us. While using the correct word ' won' makes it plain that it was fought for in a war that was hard won and carried a heavy price.
You sound like an expert.
It probably carried a heavy price [on both sides], and probably not that necessary too.
So many past leaders come out with beautiful quotations.
I'd wager that a pleasant chat and a beer or spliff and things could have been worked out, causing far less loss of life.
I have CDO.
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Kristy69
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16/F/Underneath the Cyanide Sun...,
Join Date: Feb 2009 | iwannano said:
I am not going to answer your questions , I just want to point out that ,
We didn't 'get' our freedom , we won our freedom . The word 'get' makes it sound like someone went to walmart and picked it up for us. While using the correct word ' won' makes it plain that it was fought for in a war that was hard won and carried a heavy price.
Got, won, same thing.
Doesn't matter, we have it.
I know the sacrifice, I'm thankful.
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davii
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Join Date: Jul 2009 | newmexicodan said:
We did it because of arbitrary taxation by King George,the tea tax being the final straw so to speak.I think sooner or later it would have happened anyway because ALL the people came here from ALL the other countries of the world were the misfits and underdogs of their countries.Having tasted freedom here, they would never settle for anything less.
When you delve right into it, you'll find the tax angle is a very loose fitting one. One that a small number of people pursued for their own ends and not in any interest of a greater freedom or idiology.
Conversely, the British government made some seriously bad choices and only handed the afore mentioned small number of dubious people trump cards. | | | |
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