How Did The Stamp Act Lead To The American Revolution
"No taxation without represntation."It means a government does not have the right to tax a group of people without them being represented in the government.That's what the colonists said when the british kept on taxing them unfairly.Some these taxes were the Stamp Act,and Tea Act.The stamp act was put in place in order to pay for the british soldiers being there.The tea act was also put in place to bail out the East India Tea Company,but ended up taxing the colonists.These are some of things that led to the American Revolution. Though the colonists disliked all of these laws they took particular offense to the 1763 Stamp Act.This required certain goods to have an offical stamp to show that the customer had to pay a tax.Many of these items were paper goods,such as legal documents and newspapers even playing cards,Colonists were really mad because the stamp act was passed in order to pay for the british soldiers being there.Then they
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By this Act, about 17 million pounds of tea was proposed to be sold in America, by under selling it. Since the tea would be sold at an cheap price by bypassing the traders, the businesses in America were going to be seriously affected. For this reason, the Act was resisted by the colonies. Since British tea was already being boycotted because of the heavy taxes on it, the Act in America was seen as a bribe from the British . In Boston, the opposition against the Tea Act took a dramatic fall. Here some men dressed as Indians got on a ship with tea on it,at the Harbor and dumped the entire 17 million pounds of tea into the sea. This incident is known as the Boston Tea Party. While the people in Boston rejoiced, the British Parliament passed certain laws to punish the colony. They passed what the colonists popularly called the Intolerable Acts in 1774. Under these Acts, the Boston port was closed until the debt was paid to the british for the lost
By this Act, about 17 million pounds of tea was proposed to be sold in America, by under selling it. Since the tea would be sold at an cheap price by bypassing the traders, the businesses in America were going to be seriously affected. For this reason, the Act was resisted by the colonies. Since British tea was already being boycotted because of the heavy taxes on it, the Act in America was seen as a bribe from the British . In Boston, the opposition against the Tea Act took a dramatic fall. Here some men dressed as Indians got on a ship with tea on it,at the Harbor and dumped the entire 17 million pounds of tea into the sea. This incident is known as the Boston Tea Party. While the people in Boston rejoiced, the British Parliament passed certain laws to punish the colony. They passed what the colonists popularly called the Intolerable Acts in 1774. Under these Acts, the Boston port was closed until the debt was paid to the british for the lost