The focus on money began after the French and Indian war otherwise known as the Seven Year which occurred around the 1750’s and 1760’s. As a result of the war Britain gained new territory, but also created a massive debt that Britain would expect for the British along with the colonies to pay. The first tax the Britain imposed on the colonists was the sugar act of 1764. This act became identified as an issue especially since molasses was used to make rum, which was a major product of the economy within the colonies. From the stamp act the idea of “no taxation without representation began”. The colonists wanted to give their consent to the new acts and laws that would be put in place, and to be allowed to state their opinions. Although the British payed more taxes and also had no direct representation in parliament, the colonists were the ones complaining, seeing the concept of no representation as an issue. Consequently, the colonists viewed “no taxation with out representation” as Britain’s way of confining the colonists to a form of servitude. Due to demographics, parliament was to far away for actual representation. Therefore, virtual representation was an idea that the colonists accepted, because it was meant for the people to be represented as a whole, but instead the people under British royalty were considered before the others. The colonists did not believe that being born into a royal family automatically enables a person to dominant an entire population of people, as well as people accepting the power of this person’s including ideas and beliefs while having no one willing to consider their own. Eventually, parliament understand that this is a big tax for the colonist and repeal the sugar act, but that does not stop Britain from creating more acts. Although, the colonist identified taxation without their consent as wrong, Britain believed that it was time for colonists to begin paying their fair share. The sugar act only affected a few number of people, but this number grew once Britain developed an act that affected even more people including those who were and were not wealthy. …show more content…
Britain continued to see that the colonists paying taxes would only make things fair and lower the financial burden, so they developed a second act passed by parliament. The second act passed by parliament was the stamp act of 1765. The stamp act became bigger that the sugar act of 1764, as every piece of paper required a stamp that you would receive from a collector. As a form of rebellion, colonists took their anger out on the collector sometimes verbally and physically attacking them and their homes. As another form of rebellion, colonists refused to pay the taxes that they were given. While the colonists, developed new ways to make Britain stop imposing high taxes on the them, the British found new ways to make the colonists have to pay taxes. The initially plan was for British to tax the colonies to help with their debt, but as a result of numerous being imposed and repealed, the second issue and main purpose of the American Revolution became based on whether the colonies or Britain had control became an issue. From the actions of the British, the British has the attitude that they are in control and that the colonies should be listening to British authority. By repeating their actions they believed that eventually the colonists would give up on fighting these acts. On the other hand, the colonists noticed that when they rebelled the acts passed by