In the eighteenth-century Connecticut Valley, colonists from all walks of life steadily protested the White Pines Acts. Their experience with popular resistance to imperial authority—sometimes passive, sometimes violent—prepared valley inhabitants to reject British authority during the Revolution, and it shaped an early American antipathy toward centralized governmental control of natural resources.

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