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Hello, and thanks for joining Revolution 250, where we look at events that took place 250 years ago this week.

This is from the American Revolution podcast, but it's just a short bonus episode to remind you about important of anniversaries from the Revolutionary War. This week,

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On March 30, 1775, King George III signed the New England Restraining Act into law.

This was designed to ban New England colonies from trading with any other colony,

either within North America, in the Caribbean, or around the world.

They could only trade with Britain or Ireland. The act also banned all fishing in the North Atlantic,

which was a calming fishing ground for many New Englanders. The restraining act was in response to

colonial efforts to cut off most trade with Britain and Ireland

in response to the Intolerable Acts, which was in response to the Boston Tea Party, which was in response to the Boston Tea Act of 1773.

We can see that each action was designed to heighten the tension on both sides as they moved toward open war. The colonies were

trying to use trade as a weapon to get Britain to give up on taxing them. Britain was now turning

the trade restrictions into a weapon to use against the colonies as well. Initially, the act only applied

to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

But it was expanded a few weeks later to include Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina.

Now, you may note that's only nine colonies, and there were 13 that were supposedly resisting British policies.

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