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The English wanted the American colonists to start paying taxes. The English felt the colonists should repay them for the war expenses incurred by fighting the Indians as well as help finance the war against France since they were (at the time) part of England.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe colonists, like all citizens everyplace, always paid tax. It was not anyhting "started". they paid them in Britian, or where ever else they came from, before coming to North America. Many paid substantially more.
Taxes are paid for army, and police, and education and all types of services....all of which the colonists needed a large amount of.
What they objected to was paying MORE tax (on some things) than the other citizens of England did.
Now you decide - was that objection justified?
Didn't the colonists require for say tea from china, more protection of HMS Navy to get it here than there? Didn't it cost more, and they needed more for the English army to stay here and protect them from the natives than in their homes over there?
Tax - that was/is paid everyplace.
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Why did the colonists fight of british?
The British were taxing the colonists without representation in Parliament.
What role did George Grenville play in the revolutionary war?
Grenville was the person who proposed to begin taxing the colonists in America more after the end of the Seven Years' War.
How did the British government anger the colonists?
Taxing them with out representation.
In what ways did the townshend acts attack colonists rights and freedoms?
taxing on imports
Why did American colonists want independence for the British?
The British were taxing the colonists for tea and other necessities unfairly. They also would not let the colonists be represented in Britain.
What war's expenses caused the British to begin taxing the colonists?
The French and Indian War.
Why did the British government decide to begin taxing the American colonists?
They taxed them because the british king wanted the money.
How have the British people failed the colonists?
By taxing our land, taxing our imported goods and taxing our tea!
Which country was taxing the colonists?
England.
Why did the British government begin taxing the colonists?
Why did the colonists no longer trust the British?
cuz they kept taxing colonists.
What was the colonists reaction to mercantilism?
They didn't like it because it was taxing the colonists
Why did the colonists fight of british?
The British were taxing the colonists without representation in Parliament.
What did the colonists do to rebel against the stamp act?
The colonists were furious. Because the English government began taxing items that were transported from Great Britain, the colonists refused to buy any products. Very soon, the English government had to stop the stamp act, or go bankrupt.
What role did George Grenville play in the revolutionary war?
Grenville was the person who proposed to begin taxing the colonists in America more after the end of the Seven Years' War.
How did the British government anger the colonists?
Taxing them with out representation.
What caused English colonists to begin looking for new places to trade their goods?
what caused the english colonists to begin looking for a new place to trade because the english laws controlled trade with its colonies however many merchants began to ignore the english law
