The colonists protest English taxed paper,glasss,tea ,and suger.
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Colonists protested taxes passed by parliament because colonists had NO representatives in parliament
by boycotting products.
They thought it wasn't fair.
The colonists started boycotting, tarring and feathering tax collectors, and using cartoons/speeches/pamphlets as ways to protest the taxes.
"No taxation without representation!"
The Colonist Were Not Represented In Parliament
The English back home were not treating the colonists fairly
The colonist said that the Britain had no rights to tax them.
American colonists objected to British taxes because the colonists had no vote on the taxes and no representation in the British parliament. The colonists' catchphrase for protests was "taxation without representation", because they were being taxed without representation in the parliament and that's why they were mad.
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