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Why Do We Have Taxes Dbq

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The American Revolution began when all of the laws and taxes were being passed on to the Americans. The Americans eventually fought for and won their independence by rebelling against the British Parliament. Britain's laws made for the Americans were only an advantage to the British, which was unfair. In Document 1, Patrick Henry says “We have no representatives in the British Parliament. So how can the British Parliament place this tax on us ? It is simple; they cannot !” Patrick Henry thinks that the British tax laws are illegitimate because they have no representatives in British Parliament. The only way to make these taxes is to have a representative, when there are none at this time. The Americans believed that it was unjust because the British still tried to tax them without representatives. The American colonists took action to this by disobeying the law. But if they did this, they would be tried in the court. In Document 3, it has the “Table of Taxed Items and Amount of Tax” and it shows which items were being taxed (paper materials). Great Britain enacted the Stamp Act because they wanted a way to help pay off debt from the French and Indian war. The Americans believed that this was biased because the British put a tax …show more content…

We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard, and we immediately proceeded to execute his orders, first cutting and splitting the chests with our tomahawks, so as thoroughly to expose them to the effects of the water.” The quote from George Hughes is talking about the American colonists getting organized for the Boston Tea Party. This was when the American colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped all of the tea into the Boston Harbor. The Americans did this because they were fed up of being taxed on tea. The Tea Act was only an advantage to the British because they were taxing the Americans to get themselves out of

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