USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sugar Act Quartering Act Stamp Act were the main contributing factors to the Revolutionary War. These acts restricted colonial trade with American Indians, imposed regulations on colonial agriculture, and angered colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parliament passed the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765, to pay down a national debt approaching £140, 000, 000 after defeating France in the Seven Years War (1763). A year earlier, Parliament passed the Sugar Act, their first revenue-raising measure. Both taxes promised dire consequences in a post-war economy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Colonists opposed the Sugar Act of 1764 for two reasons: it was, in their minds, taxation without representation and also because the colonies were already experiencing financial hardship.

Detailed explanation-4: -The tradition of receiving permission for levying taxes dated back hundreds of years in British history. But the colonists had no representation in the British Parliament. To tax them without offering representation was to deny their traditional rights as English subjects. This could not stand.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Act resulted in violent protests in America and the colonists argued that there should be “No Taxation without Representation” and that it went against the British constitution to be forced to pay a tax to which they had not agreed through representation in Parliament.