The taxation that occurred on the colonies after French and Indian War, the British Monarchy and Parliament came to the conclusion that the colonist where going to be held accountable for this debt to the crown in defending the colonies during the war. Parliament’s response to this position was to pass several acts as their effort to collect money in which they believed to be their justified right to collect. The long and expensive war that defended the colonies gave the crown the impression of the colonies where now indebted to them, further giving Parliament the belief of having the right place a tax on the colonies under the Parliamentary Acts of 1764. Leading the colonist to berate the acts and cry out “no taxation without representation”
which was their catchphrase that would live on for eternity. The colonist argued that Parliament was passing acts as well as taxing them without consent because there was always this preconceived notion that they were represented as a British citizen in Parliament virtually. The crown and Parliament believed there was not a need to have the colonist directly represented. There were some documents that the British wrote which did concede some political rights of the colonist, although conversely the crown and Parliament were only implementing what was in the best interest of the British government. The debt that the monarchy suffered from after the wars plagued the British with a limited amount of resources as well as more debt. This is what pressured the crown and Parliament having to produce income through the colonies for this reason it caused conflict within the colonies. The colonial leaders had the same principles of having natural rights and freedoms of liberty in addition to disputing the right to tax and regulate trade. The belief of life, liberty and the right to property is what the colonist were founded on. The colonist argued that any taxes that were passed onto them should only be applied by the colonial legislature.
After the Seven Years Way England was broke for she had spent more money needed to win the war. Also winning the war gave the colonist a “we can do it spirit”. However because England now was facing debt she decided to tax the colonies. One the first acts passed was the sugar act passed in 1764. This Act was the raise revenue in American colonies. What it did was lowered the tax from six penses to three penses per gallon on foreign molasses. Molasses is a product made by refining sugarcane, grapes or sugar beets into sugar. This upset the colonist because before the sugar act they didn’t have to pay the tax so even if it was lowered that meant nothing for they now had to pay for it. A year later, in 1765, the Britain’s passed another act known as the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act put a tax on stamped paper, publications, playing cards, etc. Because it was on all paper products in a way it affected everyone; from the papers for the upper class such as lawyers, publications such as newspapers for the middle class, and playing cards for the lower class for entertainment. Next, the Townshend Act passed by Charles Townshend. This came in 1767, which imposed taxes on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, and glass which just like the Stamp Act affected all of the classes in the colonist in the Americas. Though this act was removed three years later in 1770, it still left colonists with a warning that conditions may become worse. Around 1773, parliament passed the Intolerable Acts one of those acts which affected taxation was the Bost...
When the colonies were being formed, many colonists came from England to escape the restrictions placed upon them by the crown. Britain had laws for regulating trade and collecting taxes, but they were generally not enforced. The colonists had gotten used to being able to govern themselves. However, Britain sooned changed it’s colonial policy because of the piling debt due to four wars the British got into with the French and the Spanish. The most notable of these, the French and Indian War (or the Seven Years’ War), had immediate effects on the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain, leading to the concept of no taxation without representation becoming the motivating force for the American revolutionary movement and a great symbol for democracy amongst the colonies, as Britain tried to tighten their hold on the colonies through various acts and measures.
Parliamentary taxes on the colonial peoples started with the Navigation Acts in 1660, but they were not an issue to the colonial people because they were too difficult to enforce. Then in 1764 the Stamp Act was passed, this was the first direct tax on the colonists. The Navigations Acts and the Sugar Acts of 1764, which was a tax placed on imported molasses and sugar, had not directly affected colonists, it affected the merchants. The merchants in hand would just raise prices. The stamp act was completely different. It said that any document or printed item would need to have a stamp placed on it purchased from the British government. The Stamp Act upset the colonist...
Before the French and Indian War, Britain had used a system of Salutary Neglect with the colonies, giving them a sense of freedom. While Britain still acknowledged the colonies, and the colonists remained loyal to the crown, the colonies were generally left to govern themselves. After the French and Indian War, however, King George III saw in his colonies a way to capitalize. Britain was in a post-war economic depression, and needed a source of income (Stamp Act). The colonies provided a perfect answer. They had set up their own systems of trade and manufacturing during the times of salutary neglect, and were becoming increasingly self sufficient. In order to obtain some of the colonists’ finances, Britain began to pass a series of taxes.
During the early development stages of our country, there came a time when the overpowering mother country of Britain imposed a new system of taxation to control the colonies and the colonists. The Sugar Act of 1764 was the first step in bringing the new taxation system into affect. The Sugar Act, which replaced the Molasses Act of 1733, was designed to raise income without regulating the trading system that the colonies had established. Soon, Britain began to establish methods of taxes without any method of representation of the colonies and this angered the colonists. The power of Parliament to tax the colonies for the purpose of trade regulation had always been ac...
Back in 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. This act required the government to negotiate treaties that would require the Native Americans to move to the west from their homelands. Native Americans would be moved to an area called the Indian Territory which is Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska. Some tribes that were to be moved are Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw. All of the other tribes had relocated in the fall of 1831 to the Indian Territory besides the Cherokee who did not relocate until the fall of 1838. They did not move from their homeland without a fight. Their homeland was parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. They started this march in the fall of 1838 and finished in early
Our Preamble lists five main goals that are required to help create a strong and stable society within our country. However, money is required in order to achieve these goals. We get this money from the Federal Budget which is the yearly amount we receive in order to better our country. The question here is, are we slicing the pie correctly in relation to the federal budget? In each of three budget clusters, the U.S Government should make adjustments in the way it is distributing money by making changes involving the Big Five, the Middle Five, and the Little Guys.
After the French and Indian War, the British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share of the war debt with new taxes that they issued. The English ...
After the Great War for Empire, the British parliament began carrying out taxes on the colonists to help pay for the war. It was not long from the war that salutary neglect was brought on the colonies for an amount of time that gave the colonists a sense of independence and identity. A farmer had even wrote once: “Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world” (Doc H). They recognized themselves as different than the British, so when parliament began passing bills to tax without representation there was an outcry of mistreatment. Edmund Burke, a man from parliament, sympathized with the colonists: “Govern America as you govern an English town which happens not to be represented in Parl...
Defense of the American colonies in the French and Indian War in the years 1754 -1763 and Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763-64 were unbearable to Great Britain. As a means of financing the activities, Prime Minister George Grenville hoped to recover some of these costs by taxing the colonists. The move came known as the Stamp Act of 1965 to be active from November 1956 though passed and enacted on 1964. The act came in place 11 years before America’s independence something that triggered American revolutionary action to oppose tax without representation. The act was passed by Britain parliament and it was to affect all Britain colonies. The essay will give insight of the degree of oppression of the Act to colonies, the radical responses, and American Revolutionary acts that are implicit against the Stamp Act.
John Dickinson’s “Pennsylvania Farmers” letters, created a provocative and rational argument for the economic duties that British imposed on the colonists. Before Dickinson penned his letters, there was no overlying response that came from the colonists and the resistance to these new economic taxes were mediocre at best. After he released these letters and it started to circulate around, the colonists were galvanized and it served as a stepping- stone to the American Revolution. In his letters, Dickinson talks about economic duties that the Parliament has right to impose versus the ones that they cannot. Essentially, he brings up that Great Britain cannot “tax without representation” and also they can’t levy revenue taxes on the colonists, and that parliament only has the right to gain revenue from “customs” (trading).
The war had been enormously expensive, and the British government’s attempts to impose taxes on colonists to help cover these expenses resulted in chaos. English leaders, were not satisfied with the financial and military help they had received from the colonists during the war. In a desperate attempt to gain control over the colonies as well as the additional revenue to pay off the war debt, Britain began to force taxes on the colonies. Which resulted in The Stamp Act, passed by parliament and signed by the king in March 1765. The Stamp Act created an excise tax on legal documents, custom papers, newspapers, almanacs, college diplomas, playing cards, and even dice. Obviously the colonist resented the Stamp Act and the assumption that parliament could tax them whenever and however they could without their direct representation in parliament. Most colonials believed that taxation without their consent was a violation of their constitutional rights as Englishmen. Which is where the slogan “No Taxation without Representation” comes
The Road to the Revolution was a series of events, taxes, and other shows of power pushed upon the British colonists by their Mother country until the British subjects had reached their “boiling point” and decided to act in a war that would change the course of history. After the French & Indian War, the British Parliament needed to raise money to cover their almost doubled national debt that they had accumulated over the course of the 9-year war. The British Parliament decided to tax the 13 British colonies-who were 3,000 miles away in North America-in order to cover their wartime expenditures. The settlers did not think much of the first few legislative acts and taxes, but as time passed, it dawned upon them that they would continue along this path-taxed without
The mother country taxed the colonies without any representation in parliament. This is where the popular sentiment “no taxation without representation” originated from. John Dickinson, a Pennsylvania politician noted that the Stamp Act was “...unconstitutional and… destructive to the liberty of these colonies.” (Document 2) The Stamp Act was one of many acts applied to the colonies that raised excessive amounts of revenue for the British Crown and unjustly depleted the economy of the colonies. The British Crown viewed the colonies as their property, existing simply to make them money. As the colonies furthered developed they became tired of existing to benefit a distant mother country. They were eager to establish themselves and develop a working economy that could possibly flourish into an independent body. At the Second Continental Congress on July 5th, 1775 Thomas Jefferson wrote that the colonies are being “...reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated [British officials].” (Document 5) The colonies were tired of being unconditionally controlled from someone so distant physically and metaphorically. Because of the tyranny and economic strain constantly opposed on the colonies their justification to wage war in order to obtain freedom was