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America Becomes Different
Over the course of most of the eighteenth century, a distinctive culture began to emerge in America. Farmers, workers and artisans lived in remote areas and had little contact with government. At the same time, intellectuals began to develop concepts of personal freedom and human rights that had only been dreamed about by previous European thinkers. When the British government began to institute certain relatively minor taxes on the colonists, the Americans began to protest against the taxation on the grounds that they were not represented in the British Parliament. In actuality, the cultural differences between the Americans and their British relatives were far greater than the legal or political issues. Change on both sides of the Atlantic was creating two separate, though related, nations.
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