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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in history class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuffworks dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Tracy Wilson, and so back in our Boston Massacre podcast,

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Speaker 1: we talked pretty extensively about the vast difference between how

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Speaker 1: people wrote about the event in the American colonies and

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Speaker 1: how people wrote about it in England. So basically, Paul Revere,

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Speaker 1: Samuel Adams and others and the colonies wrote about the

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Speaker 1: Boston massacre as an outrage that was perpetuated by a

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Speaker 1: tyrannical government on innocent people, while on the other hand, uh,

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Speaker 1: folks who were loyal to the British government or living

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Speaker 1: in England generally wrote about it as quote, the unfortunate

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Speaker 1: incident in King Street involving a bunch of gravel rousers

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Speaker 1: who were disloyal to the crown. And so one of

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Speaker 1: our favorite listener males came in the wake of this,

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Speaker 1: you remember, just from Andrew who lived outside London and

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Speaker 1: wrote to us about the tone of Revolutionary War lessons

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Speaker 1: in England. And after we read Andrew's letter, we got

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Speaker 1: so much email like a landslide, the landslide of email.

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Speaker 1: Many of these were in all capital letters, and some

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Speaker 1: of them questioned our intelligence in our memory of our

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Speaker 1: own history classes, because neither we nor Andrew's letter talked

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Speaker 1: about the idea of no taxation without representation, so that

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Speaker 1: that we didn't talk about it because that was wasn't

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Speaker 1: the point, uh right, The point was to talk about

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Speaker 1: what the tone of revolutionary Revolutionary War history is like

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Speaker 1: um And the messages that we got about it weren't

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Speaker 1: many of them were thoughtful. Only some of them were rude.

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Speaker 1: But they all did seem to sort of labor under

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Speaker 1: the same misapprehension, which was that the root cause of

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Speaker 1: the Revolutionary War was that the American colonies were paying

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Speaker 1: We got so many emails that boiled down to this

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of causes of the of the

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Speaker 1: American Revolution. Yeah, it's really a disservice to say it's

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Speaker 1: So today we're going to talk about thirteen causes of

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Speaker 1: it's just thirteen of them I thought would be good

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Speaker 1: taxation without representation. That was a factor. So the colonists

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