Explaining why did some colonists smuggle goods in the 1760s

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

written by alan ward and published in 2003. ward is a historian and was a professor at the university of connecticut.

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