Taxation+without+representation

1. My topic is taxation without representation 2.What I already know: Who: Britain taxed the colonists What:Taxation Where: The Colonies of North America When: During the early 1800's Why: Britian wanted to tax the colonists to make up from the debt of their last war How: The British taxed the colonists using triangular trade 3.What I want to know: Why is it fair for the British to tax the colonists to make up for their debt? Who: Who was involved? What:What did North American goverment think about taxation? Where:Where did the major battles take place? When:When did all the taxes come into place? Why: Why did the colonists free from Great Britian? How: How did the American colonists get Britian to stop taxing them? 4. My research strategy: Who: I'll ask Mrs. Horn to help me locate information. I could ask Mrs. Brolan or my older brother What:What were the taxes on? When: Dring class or outside of school if needed Where: CTMS library How: I will use my research questions to help me with my thesis andd my research paper Key Words for searching: "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION", "tax", "British unfairly taxing the colonies"

Taxation Without Representation Taxation without representation influenced the American Revolution by acting as the final straw to revolt. Taxation without represenation made the alraedy poor colonists even poorer. Taxes is one of the major issues that made colonists want to leave Britian, so they thought they could come to America and get away from all the cruel and harsh things that happened under British rule. Cruel punishment toward the colonists lead to revolts. "The colonists were denied in parliament so they didnt pay there taxes". ( Taxation Without Representation ) I think that if i was a colonists i would have done same thing i wouldnt have payed taxes if i wasnt represented in parliament. "By the 1760s, after a century and a half of British rule, tensions were running high between American colonists and royal officials on both sides of the Atlantic. In an effort to drum up cash for its military campaigns abroad, the British Parliament passed a series of unpopular laws levying taxes on everyday goods in the 13 colonies."( History.com) I think this was impotant because this is when Britian started taxing the colonists unfairly. Acts were another part of the cruel punishements that went on under British rule. "A previous crisis had been averted in 1770 when all the Townshend Acts duties had been lifted except that on tea, which had been mainly supplied to the Colonies since then by Dutch smugglers. In an effort to help the financially troubled British East India Company sell 17,000,000 pounds of tea stored in England, the Tea Act rearranged excise regulations so that the company could pay the Townshend duty and still undersell its competitors."( Harlogen.isd) This was impotant to the american revolution because this act is one of the many things that caused colonists to rebel. They led a famous rebel that is now called the Boston Tea party. The Townshend act was a tax placed on paper, silk, lead, tea and glass. (Taxation Without Representation).The townshend acts was an import form of taxation without representation because Britian was just trying to tax the colonists to make up the money they spent on Britian last war. The President created a law called the Alien act just in case no one tried to sneak into the country illegally.( Harlogen.isd) The Alien act helped the colonists because before it people from all around the world would try and smuggle imports that the United States were recieving. Stamp Act this law put a tax on legal documents such as wills, diplomas, and marriage papers. (Taxation Without Representation) The Stamp act made the colonists buy a stamp for any legal documents that they wanted to print. Sugar Act- Was used instead of the Tax on molasses which that had happened for years. (Taxation Without Representation)The sugar act made colonists life more difficult because sugar was an everyday product, and even when colonists had little money, they could hardly afford sugar. The Intolerable act were sets of laws set by The British and enforced by the British to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. (taxation) The Intolerable acts made the colonists very unhappy and were only set in motion because the colonists reacted to the Tea act with the Boston Tea Party the intolerable acts punished the colonists. Parts that British rule may have just seemed they added in but to the colonists it was a lot of pain. The Suspending Act prohibited the New York Assembly form conducting any further business until it complied with the financial requirements of the Quartering Act (1765) for the expenses of British troops stationed there. The second act often called the Townshend duties, imposed for the second time in history direct revenue duties, payable at colonial ports, on lead, glass, paper, and tea. (Taxation Without Representation) These duties made the colonists very angry because they moved away from Britian to settle in America, to get away from The British. The third, the Administration of Justice Act, was aimed at protecting British officials charged with capital offenses during law enforcement by allowing them to go to England or another colony for trial. The fourth Coercive Act included new arrangements for housing British troops in occupied American dwellings, thus reviving the indignation that surrounded the earlier Quartering Act, which had been allowed to expire in 1770. (taxation) The third and fourth part of the coersive acts were like the last straw to colonists and the colonists officials the North American colonies were sick of the British controlling them like they still llived in Britian. During the American Revolution Taxation without representation angered the colonists severly. Then the British rule created lots of acts, taxes, for the colonists just to make up for their past war. But in the end I think taxes helped shaped America because without them the American colonists wouldn't have revolted against British rule.

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