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Why did the colonists believe that they did not have to pay British taxes?
They believed thy didn't have to pay British taxes because they were the colonists after all
Why did colonists protest the passage of the Stamp Act?
They believed that without representation in parliament, they should not be taxed.
What did the preamble to the Declaration of Independence say?
it listed the rights the colonist believed they had Its aim was to inform the King of the rights the colonists had as human beings, how Great Britain had violated these rights, and what they had to do in order to remedy this. The preamble was followed by a list of specific grievances of the colonists.
What did the British think of the colonist's fighting technique?
The British did not at all approve of the way the colonists were fighting. Colonists were using what is known as guerilla tactics. The British believed in open fighting, in lines, on fields. The colonists were attacking from cover, and quickly disappearing. The British found this ungentlemanly.
Who did the colonist believe had the legal authority to tax them?
At first, the colonists accepted the idea that their mother country, England, had the right to levy taxes. But then, the king began making very unpopular decisions and raising those taxes, without giving the colonists any say in the process. The colonists believed this was unfair-- they were being asked to subsidize what the king wanted to do, yet they were not allowed to vote or express their disagreement with him. So, they gradually came to believe he did not have the right to tax them without giving them the right to be represented in parliament. Even though the British king, through his Royal Governors, had the authority to collect the taxes, that did not mean the American colonists were happy about it; this led to the Revolutionary War.
