THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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“I will make them pay off their debt from the French and Indian War.”
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“Those colonists are not going to be allowed to move past the mountains ____ I will not pay to protect them from the Native Americans.”
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“They will pay for dumping my tea overboard ____ make them submit to my authority.”
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“They are committing treason by signing that document.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which quote below best explains the reasoning of the King for passing the Stamp Act? “I will make them pay off their debt from the French and Indian War.”
Detailed explanation-2: -The well-known slogan “no taxation without representation, ” which colonists adopted in protest of the Stamp Act, was meant to problematize Parliament’s claim to legislative authority over the colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -No Taxation without Representation To this the colonists replied that they were already represented in their own colonial assemblies, elected law-making bodies which had been voting the laws and taxes for each colony from the time of their foundations.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Stamp Act Congress met on this day in New York in 1765, a meeting that led nine Colonies to declare the English Crown had no right to tax Americans who lacked representation in British Parliament.