Massachusetts Government Act

The Fuel When the people fear the Government there is Tyranny When the government Fears the people there is Liberty --Thomas Jefferson This quote by Thomas Jefferson was one of his very famous quotes. Because of what Mr. Jefferson said it showed the colonists that they could control the government. This fueled many rebellious acts, as the acts showed the government that the colonists were going to do anything to gain freedom. The Sons of Liberty were a very important, all patriot

further wars with the Natives, the British government created the Proclamation of 1763 which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. These wars put Britain in a great debt. In order to get their money back, Parliament

The Boston Port Act “AN ACT to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, landing or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America.” The British government started taxing various things that were being shipped to America such as paper and glass. Most important to the cause of the Boston Port Act was that the British were taxing tea that

taxes such as the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Townshend Duties; these unconsented acts extorted money from the colonists without representation in the British government. Britain’s first misstep was imposing indirect taxes on the American colonies. An indirect tax is one that is paid by a merchant who imports goods to the colonists. The Sugar Act passed in 1764 and placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and other items imported in substantial quantities. The British government imposed this tax in order

Parliament and King George III (Sheidley 2016). The British government was overbearingly controlling over the American colonists, and eventually the rebellious tension brought on a revolution (Reasons for the Revolution 2016). Part of the colony who rebelled most was Massachusetts, one of its most

1. What did the Tea Act Say? How did it impact the colonist and the East India Company? What is a monopoly and are they good or bad for consumers? How so? The Tea act was extended by the British Parliament in 1773 to reduce the tax on tea shipped to the dependencies. The Act was one of many measures imposed on the American colonists by the British regime. The Act imposed a tax on tea imported to the colonies by a company that Great Britain had set up for that role. That society owned the sole

ideological causes, strategic causes and political causes. The Proclamation Line of 1763 prohibited American settlement west of Appalachians, protecting Indian fur trade with Britain but limiting American settlement and land speculation. The British government sought to curtail American smuggling and avoidance of British mercantile regulations and customs duties. It also sought to tax Americans to help pay cost of maintaining 10,000 British regular army troops in America and help with the war debt caused

would become known as The Gaspee Affair, and it led to the British government demanding those involved, to be tried in Great Britain, outside the colonies (Blinka, 54). Those involved in the burning of the Gaspee were never properly identified (Park 54-55) A trial never

A major discrepancy the Colonists argued for in the Declaration was Parliament’s act of “imposing taxes on us without our consent”. Becoming a rally cry in the fight for independence, “no taxation without representation” was a consistent belief felt throughout the colonies. The Stamp Act, the first of many taxes to be imposed on the colonists, sparked this belief. The Stamp Act was classified as a direct tax, one the colonists all felt the impact of. There was no way to avoid

the Declaration of Independence. As the British government emerged from the Seven Years’ War in 1763, they were troubled with outstanding debts. This led British Prime Minister George Grenville to reduce the tax collected on items such as sugar and molasses as they were imported into Great Britain, but also to enforce the law more strictly. Since enforcement of these taxes had previously been lenient, this increased revenue for the British Government in the the long term, and served to increase the