Actually, he made them pay more taxes because the French and Indian War caused The British to lose a lot of money. In order to get that money back, the King, King George III, started taxing them, even though the colonists didn't agree.
King George had used a lot of money to help the Indians. After that, King George realized he had lost a lot of money because of that. He had taxed the colonies on many resources they had needed. Resources like tea,stamps, clothes, glass, pots and many more items. The colonists were not happy with the heavy taxes, so then on The happening of the Boston Tea Party, they had for the first time ,rebelled with voilence.
The British were imposing very high taxes on the American colonists after 1763. They saw the money that could be raised on taxing the colonists as a way to recover money spent on the French and Indian War that brought their country financial hardship. Without the American colonists having representation in Parliament there was very little the colonists could do to contest these high rates of taxes.
The cause of the Declaration of Independence was the laws and taxes that Britain forced on the colonies. The declaration listed the complaints of the colonists, and declared independence from England. The result was the American War of Independence, in which America was victorious.
King George III was the British ruler during the American Revolution. He imposed taxes on the colonists. This made the colonists dissatisfied, which led to the American Revolution.
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t was right because the colonist had to pay taxes and that money went to king george and england
No, the American Revolution did not have to occur. If King George 111 did not put taxes on everything he thought that the colonists might need the Revolution would not have started.
King George III borrowed money from other countries to pay for the Seven Years' War and he needed a way to pay it back, so Prime Minister George Grenville asked Parliament to tax the colonists!
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The American colonists objected to British taxes because they were being forced to pay money to the Crown, and at the same time had no say in the British Parliament. This is where the phrase "no taxation without representation" comes from.
It is estimated that about one third of colonists protested taxes.
During the american revolution the colonists regulated trade and taxes since the American Revolution was precipitated.