THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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The act was taxation without representation.
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The act was passed by the king, not Parliament.
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The tax was a large amount of money.
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The tax was not imposed on the wealthy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Adams and Benjamin Franklin were among the most influential voices arguing that since the American colonies were not represented in the British Parliament, that body had no right to tax them. The slogan “No taxation without representation!” arose from colonial opposition to the Stamp Act and proved enduring.
Detailed explanation-3: -The American colonies raised the slogan ‘No Taxation without Representation’. It means the colonists did not think they should be taxed unless they had representation in the British Parliament.
Detailed explanation-4: -The phrase taxation without representation describes a populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government’s policies. The term has its origin in a slogan of the American colonials against their British rulers: “Taxation without representation is tyranny."1.