EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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The British government began taxing colonial goods to pay for the French and Indian War.
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The local colonial government began taxing for new roads over the Appalachian Mountains.
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The colonial government began taxing goods for new houses.
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The British government began taxing goods to pay for the American Revolution.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The slogan ‘No taxation with representation’ became the cause of the American revolution as the colonists protested that they were taxed by the British Government but they were not given representation in the British Parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -The English Bill of Rights of 1689 had forbidden the imposition of taxes without the consent of Parliament. Since the colonists had no representation in Parliament the taxes violated the guaranteed Rights of Englishmen. That is what the motto of 1750-1760 means, “No taxation without representation.”
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -No taxation without representation was a colonial American slogan in the years running up to the American Revolution. It emphasized the position of the colonists that they were being unfairly taxed and did not have proper representation as Englishmen in the British Parliament.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.