After the French and Indian War, The King as well as Parliament decided the colonies should pay for part of the costs for keeping British soldiers in North America. “It is in part to pay for the cost of administering this new continental empire that the British begin enacting a series of Financial Revenue Acts in 1764” (Wall, Taxing the Colonies). These acts included The Sugar Act of 1764, The Stamp Act of 1765, The Quartering Act of 1765, The Declaratory Act 1766 as well as many others. Since 1764 nearly every year after a new Act was introduced the colonist. These Act infuriated the colonist as well as lead to the tax system we have today. “In 1864, a national income tax was adopted that was modeled after the British equivalent” (Morgan
