History with Geek Girl

 Hello History Friends! I accidentally lied to you. A few times. I  forgot to mention that the Sons of Liberty had branches in all 13 colonies. AND- I said that Andrew Oliver was from England. He was not. He was born in Boston, but was hired BY the Crown to be the stampman (until he resigned). Also, I've put way too much stress on myself about where to put mini episodes of people who are influential. I still want to DO some, but my brain might make me want to wait until later. Who knows? Not I, said the duck. Mostly, though, I told you that where we left off on the Liberty Pole episode was going to be discussed in this one. However, I forgot about a couple of important things that we need to discuss before jumping into the Liberty Pole story. Sorry!! We talked about how the Sons of Liberty responded to the Stamp Act and then later the Townshend Acts, but I really wanted to discuss a SPECIFIC response to these as well.  First I need to tell you about this guy, his name was...

 Hello history friends!! We're just going to jump right in to the Sugar Act, since we mentioned it last time. I keep saying we. It's just me. I'm one person. But I like to think of anyone listening as part of this, so now we're we. I will probably jump back and forth between the me and we, so there's that. Let's get back to 1764. Ok, remember how I mentioned that there was some smuggling going on? Well, part of this was because after the French and Indian war, it was pretty frowned upon for colonists to buy lots of French products because the English pretty much ruled over us, ya know? Well, the Sugar act actually lowered the price of the duties the Americans were supposed to pay, but also started cracking down hardcore on smuggling AND increased the AMOUNT of things we were supposed to pay taxes on. Instead of sugar and molasses like before, now there were taxes on indigo, coffee, wine, silks, bengals (no- these are not tiger hides- these are thin fabricy thing...