legal authority to regulate the trade of Great Britain, and all her colonies
Because they thought there should be no taxation without representation in Parliament.
The colonist were not being recognized in parliament and no longer lived in England...........basicly the wanted a better goverment. The King was unfairly taxing the colonist which meant that they were loosing money to the king and becoming poorer.
During the 1700s the only authority that had the power to levy taxes in the American Colonies would have been the King of England along with the British Parliament. At the time of the American Revolution the King was George III. This was just one cause of the Revolution. The Colonies had no Representatives in the Parliament.
taxes
Since the colonies belonged to them, they were justified in all of them. The colonists didn't mind the taxes, they minded that they didn't get any say.
It was bad
colonist have to pay taxes
legal authority to regulate the trade of Great Britain, and all her colonies
The colonists did not want taxes imposed by the british parliament.
to pay for the French and Indian War
Because they were taxed without representation which means no colonist representatives were present when Parliament decided to tax the colonies.
"taxation without representation " the colonist where mad because they didn't have a say in what to do in parliament they just chose for them.
The Colonist Were Not Represented In Parliament
The colonies did not have representation in Parliament
The colonies did not have representation in Parliament
the act lowered the taxes of molasses imported by the colonist