By active resistance such as the Boston Tea Party, boycotting English products and by smuggling.
The simple answer is Taxation Without Representation, although it was far more complicated.
In a mercantilism system, colonies were expected to serve the colonial power. Grenville reasoned that the colonists would not oppose small tax increases.
The Americans had to pay taxes to the British because the British started the colonies to get profit from it.
The Boston Tea Party.
They made the intolerable acts to oppose the british taxes, they Used the Quartering Act, Stamp Act.
By active resistance such as the Boston Tea Party, boycotting English products and by smuggling.
the patriots
One effect of the new British taxes on colonist were protests.
The simple answer is Taxation Without Representation, although it was far more complicated.
British imposed new taxes in order to pay their debt. :P
One effect of the new British taxes on colonist were protests.
By active resistance such as the Boston Tea Party, boycotting English products and by smuggling.
MANY British prime Ministers have introduced new taxes- you need to be specific over which taxes you are referring to.
American colonists objected to British taxes because the colonists had no vote on the taxes and no representation in the British parliament. The colonists' catchphrase for protests was "taxation without representation", because they were being taxed without representation in the parliament and that's why they were mad.
In a mercantilism system, colonies were expected to serve the colonial power. Grenville reasoned that the colonists would not oppose small tax increases.
In a mercantilism system, colonies were expected to serve the colonial power. Grenville reasoned that the colonists would not oppose small tax increases.