1.28.2011

No representation, NO TAXATION.

In the 1760's, the Brit Parliament levied new taxes on the colonies. The 1764 Sugar Act, the 1765 Stamp Act, in early 1765 the Quartering Act, the colonists argued every single act because they knew that they had no voice in Parliament, so they shouldn't impose taxes directly because they thought Parliament did not had the right. Many colonists refused to pay this type of taxes, but the empire needed money to maintain the colonies and to protect the lands they just had won. But since colonies did not elect representatives in Parliament, these taxes were illegal it was what they call "taxation without representation." Government officials were attacked to prevent the tax collection and the colonists refused to import British goods until they vanished this unfair acts. In 1768, Brits came to Boston to punish the angry colonists for the resistance to the law, and conflicts created between the Bostonians and the soldiers. The worst event was called the "Boston Massacre" of 1770. All the colonists believed that the Stamp Act was the beggining of the conspiracy of the British officials to destroy the liberty of many Americans. The arguments of  the angry colonists confused the British Parliament, thinking that the colonists were selfish and narrow-minded, because they didn't want to pay the money that supposely would help their colonies. But still the Americans continued protesting, and expressed their protests in three different ways: 
1. Intelectual Protests
2. Economic Boycotts
3. Violent Intimidation
They expressed their thoughts in many ways, this revolution is just starting... keep in touch to see what goes next.

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