The Stamp & Sugar Acts: The Origin of No Taxation Without Representation (1764 - 1766) скачать в хорошем качестве

The Stamp & Sugar Acts: The Origin of No Taxation Without Representation (1764 - 1766)

The outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 was not a simple spontaneous event that came out of nowhere. It was the result of over 12 years of growing tensions and anger between the American colonists and the British Parliament. Of all the acts that stirred American anger perhaps none were so pivotal as the Sugar Act of 1764 and the subsequent Stamp Act of 1765. These two acts placed taxes on colonial imports of molasses, colonial paper documents and even restricted the right of colonial merchants to trade freely. American colonists, long accustomed to loose governance from London and being able to tax themselves, were angered by what they perceived was Parliament's infringement on their rights as British subjects to govern themselves. The Acts led to widespread colonial resistance in the form of boycotts, riots, and political actions. Parliament would ultimately repeal the Stamp Act in 1766 but not without passing another act, the Declaratory Act, that stated that Parliament held the power to make binding laws for the American colonies.