The colonies however, felt that they fought the war side by side with the British, causing the two groups to have different political ideas. British politics felt that it would be just to impose taxes on the Americans in order to pay off their war debt that had accumulated. Taxes were imposed on nearly everything in the colonies in order for Britain to payoff debt; these taxes simply outraged the colonists which is the start of the conflict between America and Britain. Taxes such as the Stamp Act, which placed a tax on any printed document that was purchased, and the Tea Act, which placed an insane tax on tea in the colonies, and basically cutoff colonists from finding a cheaper price for tea, pushed the colonists overboard, leading them to rebellions. One of these rebellions was the Boston Tea Party, where colonists dressed up as Indians and threw the entire stock of British tea into the Boston Harbor, which was one of America’s first major acts of independence towards Britain.
They revolted by not allowing British soldiers to come into their homes. This was another factor that led to America creating a centralized government, because the American colonists wanted to create their own laws and policies. The Tea Act of 1773 greatly intensified colonial resistance to the British. The Tea Act was the cause of The Boston Tea Party. The British put a direct tax on tea.
This law angered the colonists because this impeded them from obtaining new, cheap land. The Proclamation Act was the first act in which Parliament, and the King imposed on the colonies after the prolonged period of salutary neglect. The colonies were affected them because they were not used to the total control/rule of Britain exercised over them. The Navigation Laws of 1650 were now being enforced in the colonies which only allowed commerce through Britain, and controlled items of trade. Restrictions on what colonist manufactured angered the merchants because they were not allowed to produce certain items in the colonies, just as they were prohibited from distributing paper currency, and the ability of having any legislation passed in the assemblies nullified.
This was the final straw for the colonists who were already grumbling and ready to protest the taxes they were paying already. Also, these taxes were forced on the people without their consent. Today we send people to congress to vote on whether a tax is needed or wanted. This was the act that tipped the balance over in deciding to go to war for independence. April 5, 1764: The Sugar Act: The Molasses Act of 1733 placed a high tariff on sugar.
Declaratory Act The British colonies and America were bristling under the rule of Britain. They thought the rules and regulations of their government were unfair and left little behind to develop the respective countries. Britain implemented many Acts, including the Declaratory Act, during this time in the 1700s. The colonists eventually boycott them due to their severity. As such, many fought against such Acts, as they did the Stamp Act, which was eventually overturned.
This neglect involved the development of triangular trade, trade laws, trials without juries. They had illegal search and seizure to the colonist. They searched their homes for untaxed goods and such. The British had all kinds of laws that were very unfair to the colonist. The French and Indian War had a big impact on the
This act affected nearly all residents of the colonial ports. The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency due to the creation of the Currency Act. This act banned colonials paper currency in which it caused a much bigger issued for the colonies because they was not allowed to used their own paper money to repay debts. An act that affected colonists that was rich, poor, merchants, farmers, and artisans was the Stamp Act. The reason that the Stamp Act affected this group of colonist because it placed a tax on printed material.
Under the control of England, the colonists experienced their fair share of ups and downs from the year 1750 until 1776. Oppression from the British was an important issue that the colonists felt needed to be addressed with action. By the eve of the Revolution, the colonists had established their own identity which led to them uniting in opposition to the British. It was important that the colonists established an identity for themselves because it set them apart from the controlling Britons. In his notes for speech in parliament on February 3, 1766, Edmund Burke elaborated on how the colonies were too different from the country of Great Britain and that they could not blend in with the mass.
The Sugar Act made sugar have a higher price and took away food supplies from the colonists. The Stamp Act was passed in order to raise revenue to support a military in the colonies. The Stamp Act made anyone who had a printed document, have to have a stamp to make it legal, which took away more money from the colonists and greatly angered them. The Boston Massacre occurred after the Townshend Acts were passed. The worst of the Townshend Acts was the tax on tea, which on estimate tea was drank by at least one million people usually twice a day, and later caused the Boston Tea Party.
But Americans had become used to having control over their local government. They objected to the new laws and protested being taxed without their consent. In 1775, Britain's Parliament declared Massachusetts, the center of most of the protests, to be in rebellion. British troops were placed in Boston to take swift action against the rebels. Shortly afterwards, war broke out.