After the French and Indian War, the war between the French and the British, the French lost the war and lost much of the territory it once had in the New World. This means that there is a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World. The war increased Britain's national debt tremendously. The Crown, trying to find ways to pay off the debt, thought to issue taxes on its colonies. These attempts were met with some resistance ,but were stopped after troops were called in so that the king could perform his duties. From the British point of view, the taxes were much less extreme than what the colonists had thought. Since the English had obtained significant debt while fighting the war for the colonies, Parliament attempted to fix the financial loss by enacting the Stamp Act of 1765 on the colonists. The Stamp Act was a tax on all printed documents made in the colonies. The tax was mostly disliked by the colonists, some of which began a boycott of British goods, one of which is called the Sons of Liberty. The taxes are justifiable because the British did help the colonies fight the French, so the colonies should pay some small compensation for the British’s …show more content…
The colonies saw these taxes as a threat from the British Empire. The colonies resisted the taxes and protested against the taxes. For example, American colonists were enraged by the Sugar Act because they did not think they should be taxed in the same way British residents were. This was the time when the Virginia House of Burgesses declared the famous words “no taxation without representation”. The colonists reasoned that they should not be taxed upon because they do not have any elected representatives in Parliament. These taxes had led to major protests such as the Boston Tea Party. The rage increases as Parliament passed acts closing the ports in Boston harbor, as well as other things under the Coercive Acts, or the Intolerable