American "Revolution"? Fought for by aristocrats and lead to little major political change. Boston "Massacre"? Five people dead, less than shootings today. British "tyranny" upon elite American colonists? A tax exclusively on tea, not literal genocide like they did to India and others

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    They also coveted fertile indigenous lands like the Mississippi Delta. The only thing standing between them turning the plantation system into a full blown empire was British policy forbidding settlement beyond the Appalachians. The Revolution fixed that problem.