The American Revolution was economic in nature because taxes triggered of the revolts and ultimately the start of the war. The Stamp and Tea Act were the main cause of the problems. Although the colonist didn 't have any representation in parliament, the political oppression started to begin the war. The Taxes that Great Britain enforced on the United States were clearly a problem of an economic struggle. The Stamp Act was a tax that put a tax on paper products like newspapers, stamps, pamphlets, wills, licenses and much more products. This was the first big blow to the colonies (History.org). Another type of tax was the Tea Act that put a tax on British Tea that was being shipped over to America. Both of these acts had major plows toward
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The Stamp Act dictated what kind of paper goods they could us, but the money went directly toward the debt that Great Britain was in from the Seven Years War. The Tea Act actually lowered the tax of tea in the colonies; by Great Britain lowing the price of tea it sliced the back of Boston Merchants. In the 1765 the total percentage of imports of tea were at seventy percent, and forty-eight percent were the total profits of the United States (Class Notes). So it was an easy way to come up and make money for the debt from the Seven Year War. So the United States felt that they were being undercut again from Crazy King George the III, The people of Boston decided to revolt and that is how we got the Boston Tea Party. Economic problems like taxes were the background of the American Revolution. …show more content…
Taxes were the big part of the revolutionary playing out at the start of the mid-to-late 18th century while Britain was in debt. So the colonists asked themselves why are we being taxed so heavily without representation in the government? A bunch of people gathered up to upraise against the tax collectors that were sent over from Great Britain; they called themselves the Son of Liberty. Even though their were a sense of an economic frenzy the people of the United States couldn’t anymore grow in the foot steps of Britain so they decided to revolt violently, but this was all about the economic frenzy that was created from the crazy King George the III. At the end of the entire skirmish the revolutionary war was based and contributed due to an economic insecurity and miss
The Stamp Act dictated what kind of paper goods they could us, but the money went directly toward the debt that Great Britain was in from the Seven Years War. The Tea Act actually lowered the tax of tea in the colonies; by Great Britain lowing the price of tea it sliced the back of Boston Merchants. In the 1765 the total percentage of imports of tea were at seventy percent, and forty-eight percent were the total profits of the United States (Class Notes). So it was an easy way to come up and make money for the debt from the Seven Year War. So the United States felt that they were being undercut again from Crazy King George the III, The people of Boston decided to revolt and that is how we got the Boston Tea Party. Economic problems like taxes were the background of the American Revolution. …show more content…
Taxes were the big part of the revolutionary playing out at the start of the mid-to-late 18th century while Britain was in debt. So the colonists asked themselves why are we being taxed so heavily without representation in the government? A bunch of people gathered up to upraise against the tax collectors that were sent over from Great Britain; they called themselves the Son of Liberty. Even though their were a sense of an economic frenzy the people of the United States couldn’t anymore grow in the foot steps of Britain so they decided to revolt violently, but this was all about the economic frenzy that was created from the crazy King George the III. At the end of the entire skirmish the revolutionary war was based and contributed due to an economic insecurity and miss