The Sugar Act And The Stamp Act Of 1765

There were a mixture of people in the colonies at the time of the American Revolution. The Englishmen that lived in the colonies felt that the British government was treating them badly. As the government continued passing laws and taxing the colonies, the Englishmen began to rise slowly toward war against British. The British government was using the colonies for economic gain.
By the end of the Seven Year War the British government was millions of dollars in debt. Because they became that far in debt they began passing tax laws that would affect the colonies tremendously. People of the American colonies rejecting the authority of the British parliament beginning around 1765. The Sugar Act that was passed in 1764 was a tax just for revenue and the Revenue Act was an alternative name for the Sugar Act. It put taxes on sugar, molasses, wine, indigo and coffee. The following year the Stamp Act of 1765 was passed

The protests of the taxes began to multiply across the colonies. In 1767 the Chancellor passed a series of laws that would raise the revenue known as the Townshend Acts. This made the Englishmen fill insulted once again. Following that, the British sent four regiments of soldiers to Boston to help maintain law and order. The Englishmen did not like the idea of the troops being in the colonies.
People of the colonies began to rise and fight for their rights. People of Boston eventually rose up against the regiments and they began throwing snowballs and rubbish at the soldiers and the soldiers began firing into the crowd. When it ended there was five dead and eight wounded and two of the wounded ended up dying days later. This would be known as The Boston Massacre. And later there was The Boston Tea Party, citizens refused to let cargo ships unload the tea that they was carrying and they dumped it all into the