European Leaders In Great Britain Analysis

Beginning in 1764, Great Britain began passing acts to exert greater control over the American colonies. The Sugar Act was passed to increase duties on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies. A Currency Act was also passed to ban the colonies from issuing paper bills or bills of credit because of the belief that the colonial currency had devalued the British money. Further, in order to continue to support the British soldiers left in America after the war, Great Britain passed the Quartering Act in 1765. This ordered colonists to house and feed British soldiers if there was not enough room for them in the colonist’s homes. An important piece of legislation that really upset the colonists was the Stamp Act passed in 1765. This required stamps to be purchased or included on many different items and documents such as playing cards, legal papers, newspapers, and more. This was the first direct tax that Britain had imposed on the colonists. Events began to escalate with passage of the Townshend Acts in 1767. These taxes were created to help colonial officials become independent of the colonists by providing them with a source of income. This act led to clashes between British troops and colonists, causing the infamous Boston Massacre. These unjust requests and increasing tensions all led up to the colonist’s declaration as well as the Revolutionary War.

The French and Indian war caused debts among the British. The British realized that during the war the income from the colonies was insufficient (document F). After the war, the British needed certain ways in which to gain revenue. They imposed taxes on the Colonists. These taxes, in turn, caused a stir among Americans. The Stamp Act was a tax imposed on the colonists without representation (document H). Their liberties as English citizens were being denied. Radical Whigs would go as far to say it

The British were quite in debt after the French and Indian War over the land west of the Appalachian Mountains. In order to remedy this, the British decided to tax American Colonists over their own citizens. These taxes were decided on and put in place by the House of Commons, but did not allow for representatives from the colonies in the legislature. The different acts put in place were the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Tea Act. The Sugar Act required the colonies to but sugar, molasses, and rum from British colonies in the Caribbean only, even though it was much more expensive. The Stamp Act was applied to many items including newspaper, glass, paint, legal documents, and playing cards. With both of these acts, large amounts of smuggling and boycotting took place, but they were still hard to avoid. The Tea Act was different because it actually lowered the price of tea, but the colonists were not upset with it for the price rather the reason behind it. The British government decided to bail out the

The Constitution enabled the colonists to be fairly represented in the government, a privilege that the British government denied the colonists. After the French and Indian War in 1754, Britain was left with a massive amount of debt. To raise revenue, Parliament enforced multiple acts on the colonies. Two of these acts were the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. The Sugar Act taxed imported items while the Stamp Act taxed anything that was on paper. Being that the Stamp Act was a direct tax, it infuriated the colonists. The colonists believed

After the French and Indian War, Britain had a huge war debt needing to be paid off. The British decided to tax the colonists. The Stamp Act was a tax on the legal acclaim of documents; while the sugar act imposed heavy taxes on the sugar the colonists were trading. These acts and others were imposed onto the colonists with reasoning that the colonists were a part of their domain and English soldiers protected the colonists during the War. The colonists were enraged and did not agree with these new taxes, which they believed instilled a depiction of tyranny.

The Acts, unreasonable taxes, and total unjustness; but all for what? these were all things forced upon the colonists by Britain. This would eventually lead to something bigger….The American Revolution. Did the colonists have the right to declare war on England because of how they were treated? I think the colonists were justified in breaking away from Britain because lack of land, British occupation / no freedom, and too much taxing.

This act threw out the colonial currency. It also made a court that was meant to prosecute smugglers and the like however it was skewed to serve British interests. The colonists responded with protest.

The colonists were mad at the king because he forced them to fight in a war they did not want part it. During the war, which we had already been fighting, the king had impressed us into the British army and we were forced to leave behind our families and fight in the war. And when the war was finished, we were forced to pay for the war expenses through internal taxes. The king had not internally taxed us in over a century, so the taxes worsened the crack. In a time of peace, there were standing soldiers kept in the colonies, which lead to the Boston massacre. All these were made okay because of the acts in which Parliament passed. The quartering act forced us to provide housing and supplies to soldiers who began taking away the jobs in the colonies. The Stamp Act forced us to have to pay taxes on everything paper, including cards and dice. The tea act put excessive taxes on tea. All of these taxes were imposed soon after the war, which made the colonists upset. But what upset them even more was that they did not have anybody from the colonies elected into Parliament, making them feel like they were not represented the way they should be. The intolerable acts were also implemented, which threatened their self-government, so they fought back against Britain by creating the Continental Congress. After a few meetings of the Continental Congress, the colonies then decided to unite and declare independence from

The year 1754 marked the end of the great French and Indian War. This battle was was fought by the British/colonists vs. French and Indians for domination over North American soil. While the British/colonists did win, it only served to create a larger hatred of the British from the colonists. After the colonists sacrificed many lives and valuable time, the British began to tax the Americans over daily goods such as tea, paper, stamps, etc. This infuriated the colonists as they had no one to represent them in British parliament to defend them from these taxes, creating the phrase “No taxation without representation.” The British choose to ignore most of the colonists’ complaints, leading to the creation of the First Continental Congress. The

Following its war with France, Britain decided that to generate income to pay off its war debt, it would levy taxes on the American Colonies. To raise revenue for the crown many taxes were imposed on the American colonies. The Sugar, Stamp, and the Townshend Acts, were imposed on the colonies in 1763. These taxes or Tariffs would contribute greatly to the American Revolution.

America was born thanks to a tyrant. In fact, many of the laws that the King of England made were highly frowned upon by the colonists, and were resisted, as well as boycotted by many in the 1760s and 70s. After the French and Indian War, the British Parliament had passed a series of laws and taxes to the colonists. These very laws and taxes would bring conflict both sides. Two laws that resulted in the colonists to take action and request independence from England would be the Townshend Acts and the Intolerable Acts.

After the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 the American people had taxes placed on them by the British. The British Parliament claimed that by placing the taxes they were defending the colonies for the Americans. During the twelve years following the war, the British enacted a numerous amount of taxes that allowed them to raise revenue from the American economy. This taxing of the American people hurt the American economy and started to push the American colonists toward an independence movement so they could have a free economy. Over the course of the twelve-year period there were six acts enacted to take money from the American economy.

The seven years of war for which the British government was apart of caused them to racked up an enormous amount of debt. It was because of this debt that the British government made paying off the nation’s debt a priority for American as well as that of the Mother Land. This cause an approach to which the British’s government start taxing the colonies and restricted any of their economic activities. Things like the Wool Act of 1699, Hat Act of 1732 and Molasses Act of 1733 were all ways use to collect money to help pay off debt for the British’s government.

The British knew that they had to control the colonists so they decided to make sort of tax/law to where the colonists could not move west. This law/tax was called the Proclamation of 1763. This made the colonists very angry because had they not just fought a war so they could move west? That was the beginning of the new laws and taxes that Britain would make for the colonists in an attempt to control them.

The goals of the colonists during the American Revolution were to become self-governing and to liberate themselves from the oppressive taxation of the British. The colonists wanted the freedom to trade without restrictions. The colonists were angry because they didn’t have Parliamentary representation concerning the new taxes that Britain was imposing. They viewed the British government as corrupt. Massachusetts was the first state to decree that they would stop paying taxes and make provisions for war. In September 1774, the First Continental Congress was formed, a group of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies and they discussed talks on how to coordinate the resistance of the Intolerable Acts (Encyclopedia of American History, 2015).