An Unavoidable War

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so, not complete directly but intentionally, lit up the fire of hatred towards England.

As historian Dickerson mentioned, “when the laws were first enacted, there were protests from both Massachusetts, the chief shipowning province; and from Virginia, the chief tobacco colony. The laws threatened temporarily-increased freight rates to the Virginia tobacco planters . . . Massachusetts ultimately ratified the laws in 1674 when informed by emissaries from Charles II that obedience to them was expected;” and historian Harper had the idea that agreed with Dickerson, “the greatest element in the burden laid upon the colonies was not the taxes assessed. It consisted in the increased costs of shipment, trans-shipment, and middleman’s profits arising out of the requirement that England be used as an entrepot.” Such impact was strike on an insular land, Navigation Acts, according to what historian Harper believed, “. . . helped to create a fundamental economic unbalance, ” and very surprisingly “the colonists had lived under the...