Therefore, in 1763, George Greenville looked to the colonies help assist the cost of their war (Was the American Revolution Inevitable, 2011). So, England started imposing taxes on the colonies and the first one was the Stamp Act of 1765. In general, the Act was incorporated to tax anything formally written or printed would have to be on special stamped paper which required a …show more content…
In fact, “they argued that they have already paid taxes which were raised locally by each colony that had its own assembly which levied local taxes and especially they didn’t feel compelled to pay taxes to a Parliament in which they were not represented (Was the American Revolution Inevitable, 2011). Furthermore, the colonies were worried about having a conflict. Therefore, some of the locals from the colonies turned to violence to express their displeasure by one attacking person responsible for collecting taxes and one of the colony official homes destroyed to show their frustration. Secondly, the colonies sent delegates to New York to attend a Stamp Act Congress meeting to propose a boycott in which the American colonies refuse to purchase British goods in order to put commercial pressure on the Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act (Was the American Revolution Inevitable, 2011). Finally, the relationship between the colonies and England began to deteriorate and in December 1773, the famous Boston Tea Party protestors destroyed 10,000 worth of tea in which Massachusetts was placed under military rule in 1774 because of the violence (Was the American Revolution Inevitable,