USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They took the protests of British taxes to the streets. They used intimidation to get tax collectors to resign from their jobs. The Sons of Liberty would play an important role later during the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prime Minister George Grenville (1712–1770) also wanted to establish Parliament’s right to levy an internal tax on the colonists.

Detailed explanation-3: -Patriots felt that the recent British laws enacted on American Colonies were unfair and violated their rights. Some of the main grievances of the colonists were taxation without consent, quartering soldiers in citizens’ homes, and denying colonists the right to a trial.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Parliament reasoned that the American colonies needed to offset the sums necessary for their maintenance. It intended to use the additional tax money to pay for war expenses incurred in Great Britain’s struggles with France and Spain.