History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0472 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Consumer Revolution
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The idea
An increased supply of English goods created a consumer revolution whose products, the anchor says, linked the colonies to Great Britain in real and tangible ways.
In practice
Tea becoming the drink of the Empire, with or without fashionable tea sets.
Where people slip
The eighteenth century pulled colonists closer to Britain, not further away. That is what the Unit 05 crisis has to overturn.
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