Final Paper

Huge debts were owed to Great Britain for supplying the colonists with military support and supplies. To pay the dues, there was the establishment of the Stamp Act, the taxation on domestic goods and services. A tax on domestic merchandise brought even more anger to the colonists. The Sugar Act, the Townshed Duties and the Tea Act were also all introduced with the same fundamentals: applying tax on goods whether it be directly or indirectly, domestic or international. “British commercial regulations imposed a paltry economic burden on Americans, who enjoyed a rapid economic growth and a standard of living higher than their European counterparts” (McGaughy). Each act resulted in irritated colonists. Some even retaliated by tarring and feathering certain English tax enforcers living in the colonies.

After the victory towards French in the Seven Years War, the political and social relationship of the colonists and Great Britain had shifted to a different direction. The colonists began to think of themselves as Americans. At that time, The British government felt that the colonies had become quite independence, and they wanted their colonies to start paying tax in order to help England pay the national debt. Not only were Americans forced to pay direct taxes, but they were also obliged to involve in strict regulatory acts such as Sugar Act and Currency Act. Sugar Act (1764) strongly affected American’s trading in which their oceanic vessels and cargos could be inspected by the British Navy and might be confiscated if the paper and the goods that being transported were in disagreement. Currency Act (1764) restricted colonial governments to print their own paper money. These two acts put some colonists in anger but they were not enough to result in civil disorder until the Stamp Act was passed. The reason that the colonists resisted government authority with the passage of the Stamp Act (1765) was because the Stamp Act collected taxes in all type of papers including newspapers, playing cards, licenses, and stamps. This outraged many colonists especially the educated and

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On April 5, 1764, the Sugar Act was the first of many taxes to be placed upon the American colonies to help pay off Britain’s debt from the American Revolution. In the Sugar Act, products imported into the colonies were being taxed, such as coffee, textiles, and, of course, sugar. The colonists did not take too kindly to this, as the number of places that they could sell to was lowered, which led to the amount of money for them to buy things was decreasing, so their economy became weaker. And as they had less money to support themselves, the taxes were affecting them more than ever. In this way, the colonists became much more aware about how the British were treating them.

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

During the war, the British government borrowed heavily from British and Dutch bankers to finance the there war. George Washington was not paid for his services during the war in 1755 as revealed in document 3, he did it purely for knowledge and experience. Although during his services he insisted on certain conditions like a military chest from which to pay expenses that costed the British more debt. After the war, British parliament believed that Americans should help pay for the steep cost of the war. So in result the stamp act was passed to impose on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. In document 4 it displays the effort of Benjamin Franklin trying to repeal the stamp act as he thinks it is unfair. It shows the purpose of the stamp act and being unwanted in American colonies. Americans thought they had done their part in helping with war and were insulted by British demands. Also they began to view them as not welcomed. The Seven Years War was a turning point in British-American relations because before the war, there was no major debts to be paid and no major demands by parliament for the colonies to assist the economic situation in Britain. This caused more dislike of British and rebellious

Economically “In 1763, the average Englishmen paid 26 times as much in taxes each year as the average American colonist paid.” (Shi, Tindall, 120) These taxes were raised because of the war. This money that was coming from the British citizens and was going to “maintaining and defending” (Shi, Tindall, 34) the colonies, and because of this “British leaders thought it [was] only fair that the Americans should pay more.” (Shi, Tindall, 120) So, after all the complaining the Britain’s did British leaders tried to enforce many different taxation “acts” that would lessen the taxes on Britains and raise taxes on colonists. These acts such as the Stamp Act, the Currency Act, and the Sugar Act all ended up falling because the Americans revolted and boycotted the Britain’s in many ways such as, “Thousands signed nonimportation

In the late 1700’s, Britain’s economic policy of the Stamp Act was placed upon the 13 colonies and as a result, colonist boycotted and the American Revolution

During the 7 Years War, the British were spending a lot of money to support their military, and they looked to fix this by adding more taxes for the colonists to pay. The colonists were already angry about their taxation situation, already dealing with the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Quartering Act of 1765. Then, Prime Minister George Grenville proposed the Stamp Tax in 1765 in order to raise revenue to support the military in their battle against the French. The Stamp Act mandated the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps certifying payment of tax. The majority of Americans became extremely agitated with this act as well as many others before and after the Stamp Act because they felt that their individual rights were being infringed

The British drafted acts such as the Stamp and Townshend Acts, which placed taxes on legal documents, supplies, glass paper and lead, the Quartering Act, which forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers; in addition, the British took the opportunity to raise taxes on sugar since the tariffs on that product had just been lowered by making the Sugar Act. Not only would the British take as much money as they could away from the British in taxes, but they would also ruin business for the colonists by drafting the Navigation Laws: this limited colonial trade and forced foreign ships to pay England a fee when headed to the colonies; since merchants didn’t want to pay the fee, the colonists lost many of their important

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

The French and Indian War resulted in a number of acts which angered the colonists. A couple of the major acts used as payment for the war debt were the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act.t The Sugar Act was not as heavily enforced and had a three pence tax it did not affect the occupational life aspect of the colonists as much as the Stamp Act. The Teapot was produced in England between the time of 1766 and 1770 during the time of the Declaratory Acts and the Boston Massacre (Doc 1). Based by the writing inscribed on the teapot it responded to the repeal of the Stamp Act. In addition to the wish for less taxes and British personnel dispatched on the colonies. For many of the colonists the Stamp Act was an annoyance for the basic tools of the paper editors, lawyers, printers and other occupants that relied on documentation for a living to have them taxed. Many acts and tariffs were placed repealed after the repeal of the Stamp Act. Due to the perseverance of the colonists desire for no more taxes, the bond between the

The French and Indian War of 1754, known in Europe as the “Seven Years War”, was a war for control of the Americas between the French and the British. The American colonists allied with the British. The British victory over the French ended French rule in North America. The war left Britain in major debt. The British began imposing new imperial policies upon the American Colonists to raise revenue to pay for the war. The Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the Coercive Acts of 1774 were British imperial policies that intensified colonial resistance to British crown and made the colonists more committed to their republican values.

In the North, labor was expensive and workers were always mobile and active. However, unlike the North, the South’s labor was built on the labor of slaves who were forced into providing cheap labor. Another economic issue that separated the North and South was the idea of tariffs. The South favored low tariffs as this kept the price of imported goods low. The problem southerners had with the idea of high tariffs was that they feared European trading partners might raise prices on manufactured goods that were being imported to the South. In the North, however, high tariffs were viewed more favorable because these tariffs would make imported goods more expensive. This resulted in the goods produced by the North to seem relatively cheap and Americans would want to purchase the American goods rather than the goods produced by the Europeans. The most obvious is the different economies the North and South had. The North was expanding towards an industrial base while the South was intensifying its commitment to an agricultural based economy. The North and South also differed in the production of goods. The North produced goods such as lumber and textile while the South produced goods such as cotton and tobacco. The south strived for cheap imports while the North used a variety of industries that had to do with anything with machinery. The South had several small towns that were self-efficient while the

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.