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imagine you were with the American colonists.The only thing that's not taxed is the tea,and you love tea.But then the British bring down ever tax but the tea’s tax.And instead of bringing it down they raised it.Well that’s what happened a long time ago.

A long time ago the British increased duties on non British goods shipped to the American colonists.this was known as the Sugar Act.After that the British made a new act,They made another one this is the act.This is the act that prohibited the American Colonists from issuing their own currency!Wow can you imagine having to go through what their going through.Im glad we do’t have that today!Oyka back to the story.That act angered many American colonists.Ya,i am glad I live in this age and not
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Before the Stamp Act began.All of the appointed stamp agents in the colonies had qit.The Massachusetts Assembly suggested a meeting of all the colonies to work for the repeal of the Stamp Act. All but four colonies were represented. The Stamp Act Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists. In addition, the colonists increased their nonimportation eff

A long time later after many act, the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party came up.reducing the tax for British tea cosd this act.the act made it so the British This act gave British merchants an unfair avenche in selling their tea in America.American colonists commended the act and many planned to boycott tea.

The citizens did not want to pay for tea tax.So on desmder 16 some men disguised them selfs as Indians so they could dump out all of the tea.

so I hope you like this and please go to the web site where I based this information from. Boston Tea Party Historical

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