EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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The taxes caused economic hardships for the majority of colonists.
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They did not want to be ruled by a nation that was so far away.
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They did not elect members to Parliament and so believed Parliament had no right to tax them.
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The money from taxes funded only British troops and not the American militia who provided most of the colonial defense.
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Detailed explanation-1: -"No taxation without representation” is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution, and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists for Great Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -No Representation The colonists felt that the British government had no right to tax them because there were not any representatives of the colonies in the British Parliament. The colonies had no say in how much the taxes should be or what they should pay for. They didn’t think this was fair.