Causes Of The American Declaration Of Independence

The massive debt of the French and Indian war was a very big struggle for Great Britain and the massive debt will start the revolutionary war. The massive debt happened right after the French and Indian war. Great Britain was 122 million pounds in debt. That is why they tried to tax the colonies. The taxes were called acts. This payed off part of the debt but the taxing didn't come to a pleasant end for Great Britain.

     The Stamp Act, however, created much more protest. In 1765, Parliament passed an act requiring the colonists to pay tax stamps on any paper product. The act infuriated colonists because this act was a direct attempt to raise money without the consent of the colonial assemblies. The colonists felt that they were being taxed without representation. With great anger, colonists refused to allow the tax stamps to be sold. Merchants even agreed not to order British goods until the act was abolished. Then, in October of 1765, delegates gathered to discuss the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act Congress stated that the right of taxation belongs only to the people and their elected representatives. Also, they decided that Parliament couldn’t deny their right to trial by jury. They argued that Parliament didn’t have the power to tax them because they had no representatives in Parliament. They denied Parliament’s right to tax them for revenue. The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766, but following that, Parliament passed the Declaratory Act. It stated that the kind and Parliament had full legislative power over the colonies regardless.

The colonists responded to the Coercive Acts of 1774 with resentment, and the act itself stirred thoughts of rebellion amongst the colonies against the British government(Wood, 47). Indignation towards British rule spread throughout the colonies and led to the eventual formation of the First Continental Congress in September 1774 (Wood, 48). With the exception of Georgia, representatives from 12 out of the 13 colonies convened in Philadelphia to discuss their grievances towards Parliament and the King.

The end of the French and Indian War brought debt to Great Britain. To pay for the costs of the war, British Parliament passed a series of laws taxing the American colonists. The colonies became upset with all of the new taxes and began to rebel. The colonists had no representation in British Parliament and felt that they should not pay for taxes without the ability to have a say. Their rebellions only made the British create more laws without them.

The colonists had to give up their beds,blankets, and pillows for the British soldiers. The colonists got beat for not paying their taxes. That started the Boston Massacre because the colonists didn’t pay their taxes and the British hung and shot the colonists. Instead of levying a duty on trade goods, the Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. I overheard that the British were going to raid houses to get the people that didn’t pay their taxes and killed them.

The colonists were justified in going against Britain as they received unfair treatment. After the French and Indian war, Britain needed to pay off a lot of debt, therefore proceeding to taxing the colonies. Feeling betrayed by the king and the government, the colonies revolted. however, since the colonies were against taxes, they began to revolt. As things started to escalate, the talk of revolution began to spread.

By 1765 when Parliament passed the Stamp Acts, the colonies were already governing themselves so a certain extent and smuggling goods to avoid the British taxes. The colonists were being taxed extensively so that Britain could pay back their debts from the Seven-Years War, which was not fair for the colonists to be paying for, seeing as the colonies had absolutely no involvement in the Seven-Years war.

From the 1650s to the 1750s, the British colonies in America economically thrived under salutary neglect. The British crown would turn a “blind-eye” to merchants and sailors trading with foreign nations– outlawed by Parliament. During this period, the colonists felt as if they had control over the respective state governments and the taxes they paid. However, in the mid-1700s, the period of salutary neglect by the British ended, resulting in greater Parliamentary control and the imposition of many direct taxes, such as the Sugar act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765. These direct taxes angered many colonists, as previously they had been paying indirect taxes, but these direct taxes where place without any direct representation in Parliament.

After the French and Indian war ended in 1763, Great Britain was left in a lot of debt, so in order to pay it off, they began to tax the Americans. The American’s of course did not agree with being taxed and began protesting it, starting the revolutionary war.

The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to repeal the Intolerable Acts; in 1775 the Second was held to organize the Continental army. Eventually, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence to send to George III, which began the

After the French and Indian war, Britain had stopped practicing salutary neglect and attempted to govern the colonies O.I. Since they had lost so much money Britain had to gain tighter control over the colonies. In order to regain their money Britain had created taxes on certain items, and because of them the colonists rebelled causing a conflict with Britain.

In the 1700s, the Colonists were enraged how the British Parliament were treating them. The British Parliament had been constantly ignoring their rights and forcing taxes upon the colonies. This set an outroar in the colonies, especially in Massachusetts. Parliament had created new laws that limited the Massachusetts-bay in shipping and landing goods and also an act that for a better regulation government in this providence. All of the colonists deemed this as “Impolitic, unjust, and cruel, as well as unconstitutional, and most dangerous and destructive of American rights”(Declaration and Resolves, para. 3) This forced them to send Parliament a document called, Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress. This document was

Not only personal agendas, but instructions from their respective colonies as well. Many times, this would get in the way of making decisions and would be a large part of the content of the discussions. The Congress organized on the 5th, picked a president (Peyton Randolph), established a meeting place, how they would vote (each colony would have a vote), and other housekeeping items, and then they got down to business. The conflict continued to rage with Britain while the Congress was in session, so it became a sort of legislative body that made decisions on how the colonies would react or try to reconcile with the mother country. One of the biggest accomplishments of the First Continental Congress was the passing of the Continental Association in October of 1774. This called for all of the colonies to boycott all importation of British goods, with the hope to impact the British economy so much that they would have to repeal the Intolerable Acts. This would go into effect in December of 1774. Unbeknownst to the delegates, this would not work. The Congress also sent a petition to King George III to repeal the Intolerable Acts. If the petition to the king does not work, then the Congress voted to reconvene in May of 1775. The king would end up rejecting the Congress’s petition and they would be forced to reconvene. Some delegates lost hope of

Taxation was a big problem and a cause of the Revolutionary War. First, “With the French and Indian War over, many colonists saw no need for soldiers to be stationed in the colonies. Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens,”(www.historyisfun.org). The Colonist felt they didn't have the same rights as British citizens because they were being taxed for Britain's war dept and taxes. Meaning the Colonist were taxed for Britain's war debts. The French spent 1.3 billion livres on war costs. Britain was wrong for taxing the Colonist for their war dept,

In the early 1700’s, tension began to grow between Great Britain and the Colonies from America to become an independent country. In order to declare their own right, they proclaimed independence from Great Britain. The driving force behind the revolutionaries was, (most importantly) ‘battle cry for liberty, the unity of the colonies, the men and women who encouraged the colonies to fight for their independence. Some of these people include, Thomas Paine, the author of “Common Sense” that greatly influenced the revolution, Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding leaders of the United States and John Adams who was the second president of the United States and helped with the declaration of independence. Each of these people played a vital role in giving America independence.