Riot Act

them representation in Parliment. One of the main reasons for breaking away from Britain was due to taxes. Britain was trying to make money to pay its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. The Stamp Act put taxes on paper documents like the newspaper, legal documents, and much more. The Stamp…

dead on the road. After the "massacre", Paul Revere, a silver smith, created an engraving that portrayed the riot as a true massacre and fueled the Bostonian, and American feelings towards the British. After the Boston Massacre, Britain repealed all of the Townshend Acts, except for the tax on tea. In addition to leaving the tax on tea, Pariliament passed the Tea Act of 1770. This act, in short, allowed the East India Company to sell their tea, without being taxed, to Americas. This was a…

help reduce this debt and save England from a disastrous future (Chapter 4). His plans were set into motion when parliament passed acts that they hoped would raise money to pay off the debt (Chapter 4). However, they did not foresee that these actions would lead to the American Revolution. Although the change in British imperial policy involved taxing and placing acts on the colonists to raise debt money, these actions displeased the people and caused them to revolt creating events like the…

repealed most of the Townshend Acts.These acts were an external tax that charged colonists a tariff for importing manufactured good into the U.S. This caused the colonists to become upset since they had no representation, and were still being forced to pay these tariffs. The rivalry between Great Britain caused more tension towards this situation. Great Britain sent British troops to Boston in order to maintain order and continue to enforce the Townshend Acts. By the beginning of the year 1770,…

Riots and the outbreak of violence in Britain created fear for the British constitution since the French revolution had successfully influenced rebellions in other European countries. Protests demanding change became common, including the Spa Field riots, Derbyshire rising and Peterloo massacre. A year after the end of the wars with France, demonstrations were being planned for…

have the belief that the British are not to blame in this situation and that they were only acting in self-defense. In reality, the opposite is true. So let us review the events of that fateful day. A crowd gathered to protest the unfair Townshend acts that, as you know, have placed taxes on common goods like tea, paper, glass, lead, and paints. A British sentry called for backup dealing with the crowd. At this point, the crowd started throwing snowballs in protest and one young man had become…

like a very logical reason for the Parliament to impose taxes on the colonists. For the first year or so after the war, the taxes that were imposed were accepted as they were created, but in the year of 1764 the Sugar Act started to raise some eyebrows with the colonists. The Sugar Act was put in place to prevent the colonists from trading for cheaper molasses to produce rum because this was hurting Great Britain. It also raised the tax on other imported objects such as sugar which was not taken…

American customs ' duties so he decided to enforce taxes to earn additional earnings. The first tax taking into place was the Revenue Act better known as the Sugar Act in 1764. The duties Colonists had to pay on molasses was lowered but began to tax sugar and other goods imported to the colonies. There were also stricter penalties for smuggling. (Keene, pg. 104) This Sugar Act put into place affected the American 's beliefs in…

they published riled the colonists. After the Boston Massacre, patriot groups gained more power and made their resistance more known with later actions, such as the Boston Tea Party in reaction to the Tea Act in 1773, and eventually the First Continental Congress in response to the “Intolerable Acts” of 1774. These tensions continue to rise as trade is prohibited between the Britain and the colonies by colonial leaders in 1774, and…

war fueled by many events and acts occurring between the years of 1763 and 1775. Within these years English colonists were aggravated from the tax and trade laws that were put into place. The series of major conflicts between England and English colonies consist of the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts and everything in between. The English colonists were upset with the way they were being treated along with all of the taxes that came along with acts passed by the British…