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What if from the very start, English colonies in America are incorporated into England and send MPs to parliament? This would butterfly a lot of the impetus for the American revolution because the colonists could not cry foul that they were being taxed without representation. Additionally, the tax acts would not be have been as "harsh" in the 1st place as the colonists would have had MPs to argue their case for them. Presumably then, the taxes would have been milder and so there would not have been as strong an outburst against them in the colonies. With a milder political climate, we also might not see the Coercive Acts get passed.
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