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colonial protest about taxes

The colonial protest began with the change of way of thinking from the renaissance to the enlightment some great thinkers of the enlightment where Baron de Montesqieu and John Loke. This thinkers argued that everyone had the right to live, liberty, and property. This is what started the colonial protest.
the tax boycott took 3 forms:
-intelectual protest
-economical
-violent
the intelectual protest: was that their wa leader that convinced them not to pay the taxes.

the economical protest: was that the people in america would not buy anything that was from england they only bought things that where made there.

violent protest: was that when some one went to you and charge the taxes they throw them a sticky liquid and then feathers or they made them drink hot hot tea, and to some they made destroyed there house.

Then in England when they saw they need to charge the taxes, Charles Townsled who was the chief financial officer in England decided they would indirectly charge the taxes. Townsled acts taxed: glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea. Then an enlgish merchant send 4000 troops to the colonies and that started the boston massacre.

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