EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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Question
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In explaining why they felt they had the power to tax the Colonies without giving them representation, Britain asserted they had protected the Colonies during the ____ and, thus, could tax them to pay off the war debt.
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American Revolution
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Napoleonic Crusades
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French and Indian War
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War of 1812
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The protests were based on a legal principle that the colonial legislatures only had the power to tax residents who had representatives in those legislatures. And even though some colonies had official agents to Parliament, like Benjamin Franklin, no colonies had sitting representatives in the British Parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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