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or illegal business practices.
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Normally, they weren't really excited about tearing things down.
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Normally, they involved some marching and some yelling,
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there was a lot of effigy-burning,
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and then people went home.
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So early American mobs again are almost kind of procedural.
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They're sort of what happens when you're upset.
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And you're a member of the public,
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and it's not only sort of average members of the public.
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it's not only the masses taking part in these kinds of protests.
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All levels of society might take part at one time or another.
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So in the summer of 1765,