They thought it wasn't fair.
The colonists started boycotting, tarring and feathering tax collectors, and using cartoons/speeches/pamphlets as ways to protest the taxes.
They made up the Boston Tea Party and threw tea into the river.
The British Parliament were imposing very high taxes on all products that were being shipped to the colonies. The colonists had no way to voice their objections within the British government because there was no one to represent them. This caused the colonists to increase their desire to gain their independence.
Soon after the Crown imposed the first new taxes on the colonies, the colonists began to protest. The series of taxes were mounting up and the Stamp Act was the final straw.
The taxes were high and unfair and some of them were even meant to harm the colonists. They put heavy taxes on almost everything in the colonies to help pay off their French and Indian War debt. High taxes was one of the many causes of the Revolutionary War.
because England kept raising taxes and putting taxes on new things and the colonists moved away from England to get away from high taxes
One effect of the new British taxes on colonist were protests.
boycott
what happened after the colonies rejected the tax
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One effect of the new British taxes on colonist were protests.