Chapter 49 — The History of Banking Control in the United States

History textbooks erroneously
teach that it was the tax on tea that triggered the American Revolution. But
Franklin clearly stated:
“The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other
matters, had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of the
English bankers on the Parliament: which has caused in the Colonies hatred
of England, and the Revolutionary War.”