Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Humanities-Letter to king George the III
- taxation without representation
- Taxes
- Sugar Act
- three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of
wine. It banned importation of rum and French wines
- Tea act
- was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company
in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
- Stamp Act
- Tax on printed goods
- Navigation Act
- to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great
Britain.
- Main Problems
- no repressentation at the british parliament
- to many different taxes taxes
- moneymade by taxes send dirrecly to britain nothing kept in the colonies
- money that stays in america is for the wars
- Limiting of freedom
- Britsh tacking out all the wrights of the colonist
- no more comities of correspondance
- Did not allow the colines to exanche lettesr to each other about the british governament
- Did not allow them to have their own justice system
- did not allow the colonists to judge the criminals
- Proclamation of 1763
- did not allow the colonists to expand their past the appelation mountains
- British Soldiers
- did not like the colonists
- colonists needed to feed and accomodate the soldiers
- the colonists hated the british soldiers
- The colonists hated the british soldiers so much that they created an army (the minutemen) to kill them
- main point
- why are the colonists revolting
- other notes
- do not be to agressive
- be polite (use the wight words)