What were reasons that the colonists protested the new acts passed by Parliament?
1 Answer
The taxes were unfair, the lack of representation, the denial of land west of the Appliations
Explanation:
The American Colonies were being taxed to pay for the global war between France and England. The colonies had also fought in the war with both blood and treasure. The Colonies felt that the tax burden on the Colonies was unfair.
Add to this the perception that the colonies got nothing from the war that had cost them so much. The land that the colonist wanted in the west was denied to them. The Proclamation of 1763 reserved all the land West of the Appalachians for the English fur trade with the Indians.
King George at the same time revoked the charters of the colonies that had granted them the rights of native born English. With the charters revoked the colonists became tenants of the King. This meant that the local representative bodies were subject to the royal governors and the laws passed by the colonist had no standing, Instead laws could be imposed by the King and Parliament without representation.
The Colonists were being forced to pay for a war that had not benefited them, with taxes that they had no say about. Their rights and local governments were being taken away from them. All of these things combined to make the colonist angry and resentful.
