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They did not elect members to Parliament and so believed Parliament had no right to tax them.
They were very touched, but... NOT IN A GOOD WAY... They strongly opposed their new Policies. Hated it enough to start a boycott, establish the Committee of Correspondence, the Boston Tea Part. And Eventually War with the British.
The question perhaps refers to the rebellion of the American colonists in the matter of paying tax to the British crown. The justification for the colonists was that taxes were being paid to England but they had no representation in the British government. The British who remained in Britain had representation within the democracy that was well established by the 1700s. Although there were periods of discontent, democracy and the rule of law has remained stable in Britain for several centuries. The tax system was simply a part of the democratic system in place and accepted by the vast majority of citizens.
Because the British spent a lot of money on the french and Indian war.
The colonists resorted to smuggling goods and other materials instead of paying the taxes.
The colonists opposed the taxes because they didn't get any benefits. The British were paying the Native Americans for American scalps if they went beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The British were forcing Americans to buy British goods even though the Dutch were willing to sell the same goods for a better price.
They objected to them because while they were paying taxes to the British Crown, the Pilgrims had no say in how the British Crown ruled them. It's a principal named "Taxation Without Representation".
They didn't have representation.
they boycotted the idea and stopped 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
The colonies did not have representation in Parliament
The colonists were being taxed to pay off England's war debt for defending the colonists in the French and Indian Wars. However the colonists had no elected representatives in the English government, which had legislated for these taxes and the means of collection. The colonists were not automatically opposed to paying a tax that paid for them having been defended, but they wanted some say in the voting on such taxes.
Because southerners opposed paying for roads and canals that brought no direct benefits and therefore opposed clays american system as a result. (:
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even though Britain owed a very large amount of money from the french and Indian war, they also had to pay big time the colonies back for housing the soldiers throughout the war. The colonists started to get angry when they kept not paying up, and then the British not only tried to make THE COLONISTS pay for some with taxes, but made THE COLONISTS pay for british defense too.
Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France, Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors, Firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, Colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor
Nobody really likes paying taxes. The American colonies were taxed to help pay for Britain's European conflicts. Eventually, it came down to the colonies stating: No Taxation Without Representation. The rest is history, as they say.