THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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colonist wanted to take over Native Americans’ land.
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colonists believed that the Parliament made excellent decisions.
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colonists did not wish to support a government in which they had no voice.
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None of these answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In short, many colonists believed that as they were not represented in the distant British parliament, any taxes it imposed on the colonists (such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts) were unconstitutional, and were a denial of the colonists’ rights as Englishmen.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the U.S., the concept of taxation without representation has its origins in a 1754 letter from Benjamin Franklin to Governor William Shirley of Massachusetts. The phrase was widely used a decade later in the colonial response to Parliament’s imposition of the Stamp Act of 1765.