Because it felt that it was the mother country and that the colonies existed only to help bring money, resources, and power to the parent country.
And the money from the taxes was going towards the British regulars protecting the colonies from the French, Spanish and natives. The Brits figured the colonists could pay for their own protection.
The British had been fighting other wars for years. They were heavily in debt, so it seemed logical to them to tax the colonists. After all, it took ships and men to bring products the colonists needed. Someone had to pay for it. However, it was unfair to tax the colonists at such high rates, and to tax every product imaginable. This unfair taxation led to the colonists declaring their independence.
Plus, England had shipped their debtors to the colonies. It was foolhardy to expect that debtors could or would pay high taxes on goods they needed.
The British felt justified in taxing the colonies because they needed to pay for the Seven Years War. They also used it as a way to assert their sovereignty.
They needed more money because of the war
yes the british had no right to tax the colonists
The colonists did not want taxes imposed by the british parliament.
Colonist did only one thing to get the British to change their policies. The only thing they did was write the British letters.
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.
The British had imposed a number of taxes upon the American colonists without allowing them to be represented in British parliament, and therefore having no say in the matter. As Patrick Henry put it, "No taxation without representation!"
yes the british had no right to tax the colonists
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
You are probably looking for taxation without representation.
The arguments the American colonists made against British policies of 1763-1776 related to representation. The main argument that rallied support of the colonists was taxation without representation.
British uniting as Americans was the effect of their taxation on the colonists as a whole.
uniting as Americans was the effect of British taxation on the colonists as a whole.
Yes, the American Colonists were justified in resisting the English king's new laws because they believed these laws violated their rights as English subjects, such as taxation without representation. The colonists felt that their lack of representation in the British Parliament meant that they had no say in the laws being imposed on them.
The colonists were angered by the taxation of the colonies by Britain. However, that was mainly because they were not represented in British parliament, meaning that they had no say in their taxation.
In response to the change in British policies in the 1760s, the colonists organized boycotts, followed by a revolution