Founding Finance with William Hogeland
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What Did the Elites Do in the Lead Up to Independence?
In the lead up to independence, Samuel and John Adams made common cause with non-radicals from Massachusetts and Virginia who wanted to overturn the government of Pennsylvania. The people we just talked about remain pretty unknown; they are not known pain is a bit of a separate case. So common cause was made between these kind of street and rural radicals, because they knew if they could get independence, maybe they could get control of government.
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