Throughout the American revolution, there were many problems that the colonists had with the British. Some of those issues originated from the stamp act crisis. Because of the difficulties in Great Britain in 1764, the British government was short on money from the French and Indian war. The British government needed a way to ameliorate the debt the British government was now in, the Ministers came up with the Greenville acts and later the stamp acts to tax the colonials, this form of taxation was formed to force the colonials to pay their fair share after the war. The Greenville acts were named after Henry Greenville. The issue with the stamp acts was that the colonists felt that the tax acts were uncalled for and did not fairly …show more content…
The tea act made it so that the colonists could only buy tea from the East India tea company; the East India tea company was given Monopoly over the sales of tea to the colonists. In theory, the British expected no backlash from the colonists because from the British viewpoint was that the colonists got cheap tea and did not have to pay for a British minister, in exchange for this, the British would take care of hiring governors to represent the colonists. However this “win-win situation” displeased the colonists. Another example of their discontent can be found in a statement made By George Washington “ The stamp act imposed on the colonies by, the parliament, of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure, Parliament has no right to put its hands in our pockets without our consent.”( George Washington 1765). This shows that all colonists shared the same view about the stamp acts. Unfortunately, this made the colonists upset, and they began to revolt. As a result, the British ministers repealed the Greenville act. The British did not repeal the act because they were fearful of the colonists but because they were dealing with internal problems in the British government. The British abolished the acts so that they can resolve internal …show more content…
These actions took away a lot of rights of the colonists in Boston. This resulted in Boston colonials to start spreading the word that “If Britain can do this to Boston today, other colonies could be the next tomorrow.” With this mentality, the colonists began to organize small revolts that would eventually lead up to the American revolution. Because of the actions of the colonists, the British government's attitude on the event of the Boston tea party was that someone must pay. Because of the buildup and animosity that the Greenville acts gained from the colonists, it was easy to see why the colonists displayed so much distaste for the other tax acts that followed to Greenville and tea acts. These actions that the colonists took were understandable and showed that the colonists had had enough of being told what to do by the British government. Thus, the seeds of revolution were
The British act finally pushed the colonists from protests was the Tea Act of 1773 proposed by Lord North was placed. It began when the East India company almost was in bankruptcy since their tea was barely bought; much of Britain's money was used for the French and Indian War and was not able to help the company get out of their crisis. The Tea Act of 1773 lowered the prices of tea and also added tax to it to the point it created monopoly and it caused colonial merchants to lose money since they were no longer able to sell tea within the colonies anymore. It also allowed the East India Company to be the only one to ship to the colonies which meant that the company was the only way for colonists to get tea from.
The policy affected many influential merchants and citizens, and was wildly unpopular as many everyday objects were now subject to a tax if they included any documentation. The concept of such a tax was the biggest sticking point for the colonists. The allowing of Parliament to enforce such taxes on them would set a negative precedent that could open the door to further taxation in the future, and the topic of taxation without representation came to the forefront of the colonial mindset. The colonists held a Stamp Act Congress in 1765 to address the issues brought forth by the recently enacted Stamp Act, and to attempt to express colonial opinions to the British Crown and Parliament.
The colonists were not too happy about these new acts, they argued that they could only directly taxed by their elected representatives. In response, the Parliament repealed the Stamp act, at same time they passed the Declaratory Act declared its right to govern the colonies. Following, the Parliaments passed series of acts to raise more revenue. These acts raised tensions between the colonists and the British. The colonists began to protest against these new acts as they set up their own
England put taxes on all paper with Stamp Act and on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea with the Townshend Acts (Hakim 53-54). These taxes enraged the colonists because they had only been put on the colonists and not the people of England. The colonists felt as though even though they did not live in England anymore, they thought they deserved to be treated the same as the English were; “No taxation without representation” (Hakim 53). Moreover, the colonists were angry that they did not have any consent when the decision was made to have them taxed. The colonists wanted to be represented in a way where they could have a say in all the decisions the English made affecting both the colonists and the citizens of England.
The Tea Acts passed by Parliament started the colonists down the path of anger. The Tea Acts were caused by the East India Company going bankrupt that is the reason the colonist got taxed in the first place. The East India Company was running out of money and they were acquainted with the colonies government so to help out the company the government of the colonies agreed to taxes the colonist
Meanwhile, these acts removed jurisdiction in the vice-admiralty courts and forcing colonies pay additional taxes against colonists will. No doubt the Parliament ignored colonists’ citizen right and show no respect and mercy to the colonists were part of British citizen, to maximum their power to limit or control colonies’ economic activities only service British government’s interests. Therefore, colonists boycotted the new duty on tea and protested British’s East India Tea Company a monopoly on the colonies’ tea trade the later on Boston Tea Party, showed colonies no need to royal to a government that show no respect to its people and seeing colonists as tool to solve its financial problem, satisfy their greatest selfish to benefit the Crown and British merchants. Forth, revolution was necessarily to protect their collective freedom from property and rights no continue harmed by imposing more additional acts and taxation to the colonists without their
Additionally, the boycotts and protests against the tax had a negative impact on the colonial economy. The second way the Stamp Act affected this era was politically. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax imposed by the British government on the American colonies, and it represented a significant shift in colonial policy. Colonists were angry that they had no representation in the British Parliament, which had passed the law. Politically this hurt judges, lawyers, publishers, printers, attorneys, and students.
The different acts that were passed to collect taxes angered the colonists little by little until they finally exploded. The Boston Tea Party was a type of protest against one of those taxes. Colonist chose to waste the tea instead of buying it. The colonists were forced to revolt against Britain by all the injustices they made, like the Boston Massacre. British soldiers were not able to hold back their anger and shot 5 people.
Many British acts had angered the colonists. For instance, the Sugar Act was a law passed by Parliament in 1764, that placed tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. Colonists became angry because of taxation without representation which they thought was not right because they weren't represented in Parliament. Also, in 1765, a law passed by Parliament required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid. Again, the colonists protested about “taxation without representation” and they began boycotting goods and attacked customs officials.
The Stamp Act was a British tax that came directly from the colonies and it was not popular. A stamp had to be put on all the printed material produced in the colonies, due to needing money to finance the empire and putting British troops in North America. The colonists did not want a British army staying in America and were upset that the Stamp Act was imposed without the consent of the colony. People were so unhappy that the Stamp Act led to a riot in 1765 which then opened the door to 50 years of protest and political unrest throughout the Western world. It sparked the fight for liberty (for which the colonists felt violated), and various battles to increase liberty throughout
The American Revolution took place in between the 1775 and 1783, and it was a colonial rise in rebellion. There were variety of factors; the environment,the enlightenment, self-goverment or salutary neglect, economic independence, and colonial unity. The environment was the first factor of the nature of the American Revolution. Silence Pressure, the first condition of the environment, was so it can make American society better than the European society.
Throughout the middle of the 17th century, the relationship between Great Britain and her American colonies was plagued by stresses. Both the Stamp Act, passed in 1765, and the Tea Act, enacted in 1773, caused colonists great ire towards the British due to feelings of unfair taxation. As a response to the Tea Act, colonists in Boston ruined thousands of pounds of tea by pouring it into the Boston harbor (History.com). Earlier, Benjamin Franklin had attempted to get all of the colonies to meet together, but they had abstained (U-s-history.com). After the Tea Party, however, the Coercive Acts were put into place by Parliament, urging the colonists to greater action, causing them to assemble the 1st Continental Congress (History.com).
The French & Indian war also known as the Seven Years War, impacted the Indians, French, and English. It devastated the French who lost, destroyed Indian alliances, and it also affected the English colonies as well. This war caused many problems for the relationship between England and the colonies and led to a future war, The American Revolution! One of the major consequences that Great Britain had to deal with was the fact that they had no money whatsoever to pay off the huge debt that lingered over them. For every victory that the British had conquered, there was a higher cost that loomed in their presence.
According to the book Give Me Liberty by Eric Foner, the government of London imposed a new set of taxes on the Americans. The Chancellor of the Exchequer; the cabinet’s chief financial minister, was the one who established the taxes on Americans. His intention with the taxes was the pay the salaries of American governors and judges, as well as freeing them from dependence on colonial assemblies. After more in depth research I came across a lot more information.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” (Bailey). The US Constitution provides all Americans with the right to peacefully petition the laws made by the government in the First Amendment. Without the right to petition, American schools would still be segregated between African Americans and whites and most women would still mainly be housewives. Some of the everyday things experienced in America were once fought for tirelessly by protesters. Protests have changed the country and often have a ripple effect in society and in government.