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I need three reasons.

2007-05-10 07:17:02 · 5 answers · asked by jade b 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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The issues are complicated by 250 years of propaganda.
1- The poor wanted expansion. Expansion cost the government, because it had to protect settlers from the expelled indians. The costs of protecting the colonies were mounting and the settlers would not stop provoking the indians. After the 7 years war, the British government, badly in need of income decided to tax the colonies for their protection.
2- The tax on stamp paper cannot be construed as an attack on the population. In fact it was an attempt to make the merchants who benefited from the protection during the 7 years war and the demographic pressure valve of an open border to pay for the costs of protection.
3- the colonies' merchant class saw this as an opportunity to gain control over transatlantic trade from the English. Since popular support was guaranteed by the unpopularity of British curbs on colonial expansionism and the ease with which a tax could be vilified (even if it barely affected the majority), the merchant class easily manipulated the masses into becoming cannon fodder for the cause of the elites.

Popular leader swallowed the bait and promised representation for their taxation. But the truth is, first thing Washington did as president was to put down the rebellion of Pensylvania farmers over a tax they had not voted for. In fact, only white property owners has taxation and representation. Everybody else only had taxation. When the poor farmers tried to fight for no taxation without representation, well they were quelled.
There is no substantive proof that the men who died at the Battle of Lexington or any of the many battles that followed it would have become involved had they known that their cherished leaders (Payne and Hancock) would be excluded from the Continental Congress.
SO, while the Boston Tea party was an act of true subversive heroism, everything that followed it was manipulated for the interest of the slave holding (south) and merchant (north) elites. Universal suffrage (universal representation) did not come about until 1919.

2007-05-10 07:54:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1)after the French and Indian war or the seven years war in Europe was over the the English told her colonies that they couldn't go into the land that they had helped win from the French
2)england started taxing the colonies to pay for the war. telling them that every thing that they bought had to come from england and that they couldn't build there own stuff like shovels plows and so on and the stamp act then the tea act

but even though all that was happening the colonies still wanted to be English it really wasn't until the Boston massacre that we started screaming for war

2007-05-10 07:33:50 · answer #2 · answered by ryan s 5 · 0 0

In which country?

2007-05-10 07:19:26 · answer #3 · answered by fuck off 5 · 0 1

poverty, lack of self representation, and lack of support from parliament.

2007-05-10 07:26:45 · answer #4 · answered by Teacher 6 · 0 1

Bengin ?

2007-05-10 07:21:41 · answer #5 · answered by jon_mac_usa_007 7 · 0 2

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