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Why Did The British Parliament Need To Gather Revenue?
Every morning my husband Jeremiah and I get up and begin our day. I make breakfast and he does morning rounds on the farm. We both assumed that the day would be the same as should be expected however it was most certainly not. While we were reading the daily paper, Jeremiah read an article about how the British Parliament needed to gather revenue. I read the article in my mind, yet I could not comprehend why the Parliament would need to do something like this. "Why would they want to gather revenue and how might they even gather it," I inquired. “From what I understand the Parliament needs to gather the revenue through directly collecting taxes to raise revenue to bolster the British Army positioned it America” (“Stamp Act”-Britannica). Trusting that it would not influence us, we went ahead with our day. Little did we know, the Parliament had already decided how to collect the revenue. …show more content…
After he left to go to work on the farm, I went to the market to get some of the things that we needed. When I arrived at the market, there was a crowd of people standing around a newspaper stand. Concerned, I walked over to the crowd of people to find out what was occurring. When I got to the front, I got a paper and started to read. The first thing I saw was an article that read, "British Parliament Taxes Paper Goods to Collect Revenue." As soon as I was done at the market I ran home to tell Jeremiah what was going on. He came into the house and I showed him the daily paper. With a look of dismay he said, "Perhaps this will not be too terrible." Hoping that he would be correct, we proceeded with our

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