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American revolution


There was no standard value on the money. There was no standard common value to all of the colonies. This was the only way to fix this problem and the colonies did not realized it and protested against is saying that this screwed trade between them and other countries.
             In March of 1765, the English Parliament passes the stamp act. This was the first direct tax on the colonies. All paper materials such as newspapers, bills, legal documents, and playing cards were now going to have a tax on them. The stamp act was basically made to help the British pay off their debt. The colonists being very greedy did not care about the British, even though the British were the ones who kept the colonies together and protected them. The colonists did not want to pay the tax to help out the British. They protested vehemently against this tax law. This tax was very much fair and the colonists did not care and still protested against it. The theory of Mercantilism gave the power to the British to pass this law. This theory made it legal to tax the colonies without representation. The colonies were only there for the benefit of the mother country. The colonies ended up getting what they wanted when in 1765, they came up with a petition that said that only colonial legislature can tax colonial resident and that taxation without representation was now illegal. The Congress later passed this petition in April of 1766. Later in March, the quartering acts were passed. This act required the colonists to feed the British soldiers and shelter them if they were to go to their house. The colonists did not want to do this because they did not feel that they owed the soldiers for anything. The soldiers were the one who protected the colonists and their land and the colonists still hated them and did not want to help them whatsoever. The colonists again cried and ended up getting what they wanted. The New York assembly destroyed this act in 1766.


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