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The Boston Tea Party.
The taxes were to help pay for the French and Indian war. They reasoned that they were protecting the colonists and the colonists were English subjects so they should help pay for the war.
stamp tax money would be used to defend the colonies
The fundamental argument against Parliament's taxation was that since the colonies did not receive representation in Parliament, they should not be taxed. The colonists had lobbied for representation for years, without success. As a result, the sudden levying of taxes by Parliament was totally unexpected, and angered the colonists. Although the taxes levied differed, this was the fundamental argument for all of them, including the Stamp Act.
They did not elect members to Parliament and so believed Parliament had no right to tax them.
The colonists let the Parliament know that they were against british taxes by throwing british goods into the water. This was called the british tea act.
Colonists protested taxes passed by parliament because colonists had NO representatives in parliament
The Boston Tea Party.
The colonists fought The Stamp Act by boycotting the Bristish that made them loose their jobs in the colonies. A few results from this crisis was the Townshend Acts, and the protests in Britian forced Parliament to power property taxes.
The taxes were to help pay for the French and Indian war. They reasoned that they were protecting the colonists and the colonists were English subjects so they should help pay for the war.
In one word - TAXES - they especially resented taxation without representation in Parliament
The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. Many colonists felt that they should not pay these taxes, because they were passed in England by Parliament, not by their own colonial governments. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens.
they stopped buying british goodsThey stopped buying british goods.
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.
they stopped buying british goodsThey stopped buying british goods.
they stopped buying british goodsThey stopped buying british goods.
"taxation without representation " the colonist where mad because they didn't have a say in what to do in parliament they just chose for them.