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Treated Unfairly: George Grenville And The Stamp Act

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Treated Unfairly Several events that occurred in the years 1763 to 1776 outraged the Britons in America. They felt plagued by taxed, treated unlawfully, and felt that they were being cheated. These events, which mostly included many taxations that were placed by Britain not only led to the Revolution, but also initiated a thirst for unity and representation within the colonies. This eventually led to disputes, charges, and many deaths. The Prime Minister George Grenville created the Sugar Act of 1764. This act placed a tax on sugar while lowering the tax on molasses. The colonists grew livid. The colonists believed that this tax was paying for the problems in Britain and not in the colonies, so they believed it was unfair of them to have …show more content…

That same year, George Grenville created the Stamp Act. Unlike the Sugar Act that was placed a year prior to this act, the Stamp Act affected everyone. This act served as a means of financial support towards the British army by placing taxes on newspapers, government prints, playing cards etc. This was an attempt by England to “raise revenue” from the colonies without the consent of colonial assemblies. Although George Grenville's argued that the colonies are only paying this for their protection by the British troops, and that citizens in Britain have also underwent this same tax style for a longer, including heavier fees, the colonists began to feel as if they were being cheated in a sense and that the Grenville was imposing this tax only for Britain’s benefit. Colonists desired to discontinue the Stamp Act, and began to accuse the British of " taxation …show more content…

Parliament then passed the Declaratory Act, which gave Parliament the right to "to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever." This gave Britain the right to govern the colonies. When this act was passed the colonialists grew more furious toward England with the Stamp act revoked, the next act that angered the colonists the most was the Mutiny Act of 1765, which ultimately required colonists to provide shelter and support British troops. The colonists were not only angry at the fact that they had a British troop invading their homes, but their were even more upset that Britain was forcing them to. On June 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts. This was done aside from “disbanding” the New York Assembly after they refused to vote the “mandated supplies to troops”. As colonists refused to import as a result, and after the death of Charles Townshend in 1767, the new Prime Minister, Lord North, repealed the Townshend taxes excluding the tea

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