It is not that the colonists are whiny; they just want their way – a representation in the higher power, the Parliament, which imposes the laws on them. It is human nature to wish to be an active part of the major events that surround people. But the point my mind makes on the graph goes on to say that History often repeats itself (the colonists’ protests), but interestingly enough, when it does, both the causes and the outcome of the repeated action are different each time. The first cause is the removal of a tax, leading to the shut down of the Boston Harbor, but the second is the addition of a tax, leading to the tax never being collected, but not resulting in a major direct punishment. The action, though, is the same – colonists protest both tax changes imposed on them by Britain.
The bell rings and my mind exits the imaginary history classroom.