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Message 1294895 - Posted: 13 Oct 2012, 17:49:12 UTC

Hint for the day.

Why were the taxes levied? What were they being used for?


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Message 1294903 - Posted: 13 Oct 2012, 17:56:43 UTC - in response to Message 1294895.  

Hint for the day.

Why were the taxes levied? What were they being used for?

To pay for the war with France.
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Message 1294908 - Posted: 13 Oct 2012, 18:06:29 UTC - in response to Message 1294903.  

Hint for the day.

Why were the taxes levied? What were they being used for?

To pay for the war with France.

Then tell Obama the war with France has ended...kinda.
Drop the taxes then.
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Message 1295000 - Posted: 13 Oct 2012, 22:23:59 UTC - in response to Message 1294903.  

Hint for the day.

Why were the taxes levied? What were they being used for?

To pay for the war with France.

It was after the war with France, and it was not to pay for the war with France, although it did have something to do with the war with France.


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Message 1295056 - Posted: 14 Oct 2012, 3:24:23 UTC

The Poms used to sit around drinking tea and complaining. They thought if they threw away all the tea that it would stop the wingeing.
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Message 1295057 - Posted: 14 Oct 2012, 3:25:21 UTC - in response to Message 1295056.  

The Poms used to sit around drinking tea and complaining. They thought if they threw away all the tea that it would stop the wingeing.

Not even close.


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Message 1295248 - Posted: 14 Oct 2012, 16:35:17 UTC

The treaty forced the English to do something. The taxes were to pay for that something. It was decidedly not in the best interest of the colonies. What was it that the treaty ending the war forced the English to do?


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Message 1295406 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 1:39:19 UTC

The French had the Ohio river valley. The problem had something to do with the Ohio river valley.


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Message 1295435 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 4:03:41 UTC - in response to Message 1295406.  

The French had the Ohio river valley. The problem had something to do with the Ohio river valley.

Germany had to put up with a similar item for about 4 decades - but not for the same reason.

The taxes that were to be paid by the American Colonies were to be used to build something (or rather several somethings), and supply them. These somethings were to be placed to prevent the colonies from doning something that the French did not want the British colonies doing in America.

This was part of the Armistice at the end of the French & Indial war (as it is known in the US).


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Message 1295439 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 4:14:42 UTC

Probably has nothing to do with the answer. Are you refering to the Hessens when you mention Germany?
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Message 1295790 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 23:35:41 UTC - in response to Message 1295523.  

In 1767, to help the East India Company compete with smuggled Dutch tea, Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain, and gave the East India Company a refund of the 25% duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies. To help offset this loss of government revenue, Parliament also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, in the colonies.

Not entirely. There is a similar structure to the one that was proposed for the border between the British territory and the French territory near once brewed in Britian. Much of the new taxes on the Colonies was destined to pay for this.


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Message 1296051 - Posted: 17 Oct 2012, 4:22:28 UTC - in response to Message 1295905.  

As a result of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the following laws designed to punish the Americans.

5.) Quebec Act - This act extended the Canadian border (British territory) into the Ohio River Valley and eliminated lands that were claimed by Massachusetts, Virginia and Connecticut.

These acts were called the Intolerable Acts in America and resulted in the formation of the Continental Congress


Before the Boston Tea party, the French insisted that the British do something to the border between the French (in the Ohio valley at the time) and the British. The taxes were to pay for this something, supplies, and garrison for the same. My highschool textbook noted these as a minor footnote, but I can see how they might have loomed MUCH larger.

A further note was that the portion in the Americas was a small part of a much larger treaty that set borders between the two empires around the world (for a short time).


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Message 1296373 - Posted: 17 Oct 2012, 22:42:07 UTC - in response to Message 1296117.  

So have you got your answer yet? has anybody won?


No.


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Message 1296456 - Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 4:54:03 UTC - in response to Message 1295905.  

As a result of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the following laws designed to punish the Americans.

5.) Quebec Act - This act extended the Canadian border (British territory) into the Ohio River Valley and eliminated lands that were claimed by Massachusetts, Virginia and Connecticut.

These acts were called the Intolerable Acts in America and resulted in the formation of the Continental Congress

Prior to the Boston Tea party, a proposal for something that would have a similar effect on the Americans. Between what was at the time the British colonies and the French.


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Message 1298320 - Posted: 24 Oct 2012, 3:42:14 UTC

The French insisted that the British build a string of ____ to keep the colonists from ______, and the British raised taxes on the colonists so that the colonists would end up paying for it.

The objects were never built as the American revolution got in the way.

Please fill in the blanks. I really cannot give any more clues without just stating what they were and what they were for.


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Message 1299187 - Posted: 27 Oct 2012, 1:04:36 UTC - in response to Message 1299065.  
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These were the forts to protect from the French?


They were insisted upon by the French to prevent the Americans from expanding westward. The Americans were paying the taxes to pay for the forts and the Garissons.

I am going to declare a winner.


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Message 1299306 - Posted: 27 Oct 2012, 9:31:57 UTC
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Lexus is the premium class of Toyota.

The name Lexus is a word that is intended to indicate the nature of the luxury vehicles.


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Message 1299415 - Posted: 27 Oct 2012, 15:53:27 UTC - in response to Message 1299312.  

I thought the Japanese car manufacturers were very careful to pick brand names that didn't mean anything, in any language. A Lexus is only a Lexus, like a Camry is only a Camry.

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Message 1299602 - Posted: 28 Oct 2012, 1:26:58 UTC

Luxury Edition (X from the middle of Luxury) United States.


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Message 1300499 - Posted: 30 Oct 2012, 11:02:51 UTC

There are two car manufacturers names that are almost anagrams of each other (you have to add or subtract one letter). Which two manufacturers?


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