they stopped buying the imported goods from Britain and the women made their own tea and that started the Boston tea party
The colonists were angered by the taxation of the colonies by Britain. However, that was mainly because they were not represented in British parliament, meaning that they had no say in their taxation.
It was because of the unfair taxes and the Massacre which killed 5 colonists.
"No taxation without representation"
Taxation without representation.
Many colonists thought taxation without representation was fundamentally wrong.
colonists believed that since the government had no representative they had no right to tax them. Their rallying cry was "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!"
they stopped buying the imported goods from Britain and the women made their own tea and that started the Boston tea party
The colonists were angered by the taxation of the colonies by Britain. However, that was mainly because they were not represented in British parliament, meaning that they had no say in their taxation.
colonists believed that since the government had no representative they had no right to tax them. Their rallying cry was "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!"
It was because of the unfair taxes and the Massacre which killed 5 colonists.
The colonists felt British taxation was unfair. They were forced to pay taxes, but received basically nothing in return. Due to the colonists wanting something for their money, the phrase "taxation without representation" was coined. American colonists demanded representatives in England.
"No taxation without representation"
British uniting as Americans was the effect of their taxation on the colonists as a whole.
representation
Taxation without representation.
the revenues fromt the taxation would go to support British officials and judges in America