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Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bourne, Henry Eldridge, 1862- Benton, Elbert Jay, 1871-1946, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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They paid no taxes to the mothercountry and even charged import duties upon British productsbrought into the Dominion. All this was very different fromthe bitter dispute a century before between the British parlia-ment and the colonies on the Atlantic shore. A new ideahad taken possession of the leaders of Great Britain. Theynow thought that the Englishman who chose to live beyondthe seas in Canada, South Africa, Australia, or any othercountry, should enjoy the same rights he would have athome. The expenses of the Empire, which troubled themen of 1765 so much, were paid from taxes collected inGreat Britain, unless the colonies offered to bear a share. The change in views of the EngHsh leaders was mainly dueto the adoption by parliament of new reform bills. Theseextended the reforms in government begun by the GreatReform bill of 1832, until almost every man in the land pos-sessed the right to vote. Representation in parliament wasalso more fairly distributed. The government remained a
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