Cause they didn't want to pay them and they didn't get to vote on them and they didn't have representatives in congress that voted on the taxes.
They thought it wasn't fair.
Easy, they wanted more money.
One effect of the new British taxes on colonist were protests.
Great Britain imposed new taxes on the colonists in order to pay war debts.
they were taxing great Britain because they wanted colonist to pay for the war with the french
One effect of the new British taxes on colonist were protests.
that they were no good
The colonists started boycotting, tarring and feathering tax collectors, and using cartoons/speeches/pamphlets as ways to protest the taxes.
The air of the nation during those days as an English colony had built to a fever pitch with several other acts that placed a great number of new taxes on the colonies long before the Tea Act. It was this constant pressure from Britain that forced the colonies to act in defiance to the added taxes on tea and other goods of import. This constant barrage of new taxes really left nowhere else for the colonists to go but to war and I would have supported that belief also.
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what happened after the colonies rejected the tax