Why did some american colonists engage in smuggling and piracy?

Because it was an ingenious way to avoid regulations. From 1696 to 1725, the Board of Trade sought to impose more efficient  royal control over the colonies. But colonists continued to resist. They lobbied  against the various Navigation Acts, challenged them in court, and  resisted them by smuggling, bribery, fraudulent bookkeeping, and even violence.  The fifty or so British customs officials struggled to police hundreds of  American vessels operating along a thousand miles of jagged coastline.

1. darius the great     persia  

2. piankhi       nubia

3. ezana       aksum

4.     nebuchadnezzar     babylonia

5. shalmaneser iii     assyria

in 1859, brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in harper's ferry. their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon. abolitionist and insurrectionist

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