Tea Act

The sugar and stamp acts were taxes places on the sugar and stamped goods that the colonist bought. The colonist was upset because they felt they were being taxed by Parliament with no representation for the American colonies in Great Britain, they referred to it as “taxation without representation”. After the stamp act was passed nine American colonies gathered in order to ask all colonies to stop buying stamped goods, they called themselves the Stamp Act congress. This event made Parliament…

will give tremendous insight on the America Revolution, which also know as the War of independence. Starting with the contributing factors that lead to the rebellion of the 13 colonies. For instance, the Boston Massacre, Stamp Act of 1775, Tea Act of 1773, and the Coercive Acts designed to reaffirm Brittan’s absolute rule or authority of the colonist. With a better understanding of these events we can make our own conclusion on weather this revolution could have been avoided. The…

that they paid less taxes and that there was no control over the ways they traded, shipped products, and exchanged money. The first act that was passed was the Quartering act which forced the soldiers to live with the colonist and this proposed an issue because the colonists did not like to be told what to do. The next act to be passed was the Sugar Act, this act was made so the colonists would have to pay tax on molasses that were…

During the 1760s and 1770s Britain and its colonies had big disagreements. Some colonists felt they should rebel against the British because of things such as the unfair taxation without representation in Parliament. Other colonists thought they should remain loyal to Britain because the British Army and Navy protected them from any threats. Although the colonists that felt they shouldn’t fight had some good points, the colonists that wanted to fight held a better argument. Colonists who…

The Boston Tea Party occurred in May of 1773. The Parliament had just passed legislation that allowed the East India Company to sell and ship tea to the American colonies. Though, it did not tax or increase the cost of the tea, the people were not happy and this was the last straw after all the other acts that had been placed against them, so they decided to rebel. The Committee of Correspondence formed groups of boycotters for the colonies that unloaded tea from the East India Company…

acted additional acts on top of the Sugar Act. These new acts included the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, and the Townshend Act each of these acts the colonist responded uniquely. With some acts there was protest such as harassing officials and in some there was complete boycotting of goods. In contrast some acts such, as the Declaratory Act was not protested at all. An additional law that was forced upon the colonist was proposed by George Greenville was the Stamp act. The Stamp Act passed…

Britain needed money after the war so they passed laws or acts and taxed the colonists. The colonists soon began to boycott and protest. The British had many actions. Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763, that prevented and prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. Britain passed the Sugar Act, that lowered the tax on molasses to convince the colonists to pay the tax instead of smuggling. The British passed the Stamp Act, that taxed on all printed materials and got…

British’ Attempt to dominate the American Colonies. The massive army presence in the city led to the Boston Massacre and was prompted by British enforcement of the Townshend Acts of 1767. With a total population of 20,000 during the bloodshed, several mob protests both organized and spontaneous gangs protested against that 1767 act. On 4th of March 1770, a day before the Boston Massacre, a clash emerged between some Boston citizens and troops at John Gray’s Ropewalk. Among the British soldiers…

Americans were already attempting to get the attention of the British and forcing them so listen to their concerns. Although the first battle marks the official start of the American Revolution, it is evident that the Boston Tea Party, and their reaction to the Intolerable Acts, and the formation of the Constitutional Convention show that Americans had already begun the revolution prior to that. Far before…

affected by the slew of taxes that the British government implemented after 1763. Taxes such as the Townshend Revenue Act, which placed a levy on various English goods including lead, paint, and paper, the Sugar Act, and the Stamp Act had devastating effects on the entire colony’s population- especially threatening the wealth and prosperity of Massachusetts’ merchants. The Tea Act of 1773 particularly angered many colonists because it exempt the East India Company from navigation taxes; allowing…