Taxation on colonists

Brittish had the best government in all the world as we can still see in our days.

In the French and indian war, french lost and a treaty arise thet benefits the english.
The treaty sid that brittish had to keep canada and great lakes, leaving the mississippi river as a boundary between englih and spanish territories.

English had trade with America and Africa. These was called the triangular trade, they traded slaves, sugar, tabacco and rice cotton.
(each slave plantation had more than 200 slaves)

Now, colonists benefitted on these trades because they received protection from brittain at no costs. There is where problems arise, because war was very expensive and brittain needed more money to expend in war and they started TAXING the colonists. Colonists got upset and the argument became huge wars between them.
The most important taxes the Parliament levied on the colonists were:
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Sugar act

Stamp act:
Each newspaper, pamphlets magazines had to have a stamp in order to be sold, even playing cards had stamps, these was a huge complain against the Brittish. Patrick Henry were one of the leaders in these opposition.

Sugar Act:
Were all the taxes imposed in all the foods that came from England

Quartering Act:


Taxes were not high, but colonists were very angry because they were taxing them without any representation from england this was called ¨taxation without representation¨ Colonists only wanted representation.