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What was the colinists biggest objection to paying taxes to the british Government?
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∙ 8y ago
Despite the legend in our history about "taxation without representation " the fact is most Americans went unrepresented at home, let alone in parliament. In Virginia only 6% of the adult white males owned enough land to vote. In Massachusetts only 16% did and only 1/4 of them voted. In Philadelphia only 2% could vote. Nor did the colonists want representatives in Parliament even though they would complain that they did, but they knew that they would have been outvoted on most issues. The issue was purely Propaganda by the men who pushed for revolution. Yet, they were the men who were at the top of the social structure and the voters. They paid the taxes and revolution was to their benefit.
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What was the colonists biggest objection to paying taxes to British government?
They did not elect members to Parliament and so believed Parliament had no right to tax them.
What was the colonists' biggest objection to paying taxes to the British government?
They did not elect members to Parliament and so believed Parliament had no right to tax them.
Why were the colinists British if they hated the British soldiers?
the Bostonians hated the british soldiers because they kept on tormenting them
Why did many American colinists oppose the british policy mercantilism?
It basically restricted trade
Were loyalists allied with the British?
they were colinists who were still loyal to the king of briten. hence the title loyalists
What was the colonists biggest objection to paying taxes to the government?
The taxes caused economic hardships for most colonists they did not want to be ruled by a nation that was so far away they did not elect members to parliament and so believed parliament had no right to tax them the money from taxes funded only british troops and not the american militia
What was the colonists biggest objection to paying taxes to the British?
The taxes caused economic hardships for most colonists they did not want to be ruled by a nation that was so far away they did not elect members to parliament and so believed parliament had no right to tax them the money from taxes funded only british troops and not the american militia
What was sam Adams interested in?
1.colinists couldn't afford to pay such high taxes of british goods. 2.it was unfair that the king chose gonerners for the colonies.
The major objection that British colonists in North America had to English rule was that they were?
denied the rights of citizens who lived in England
What was the colonist' main objection to the British Parliament's policies on taxation?
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
What was the colonist main objection To the british parliament policies on taxation?
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
What was the colonist main objection to the British parliaments policies on taxation?
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
