Ranking first among these factors was the British parliamentary taxation. These plagues of taxes which were laid upon the colonies had angered them greatly, causing them to rebel and act against the acts of taxation. First to come was the Sugar Act, passed in 1764 by parliament; it was the first tax to be passed. It had the colonies pay a tax on important items that came from the West Indies. Second to come was the Stamp Act, which had stirred the colonies quite a bit of them having required putting a stamp on marriage licenses, paper, newspaper, pamphlets, and shipping items. The tax was half a penny but it added up, and so did the anger and tensions. This had led to the

Stamp Act Congress, which proposed that the colonists would no longer purchase manufactured goods from the British to further support the British economy while their own was being destroyed by taxes. The Stamp Act had further led the colonist to hate the British, after the Stamp Act Congress, the Sons and Daughters of Liberty had arisen. A violent group which had led protest and rebelled against the British, many of these rebellions involved in Stamp burning, the confiscation of money, and hanging effigy dolls on poles which represented members of the British Parliament. With these waves of taxes being passed upon by the British, it had only added ingredients to the pot of hate toward the British, which was already overflowing, giving more reason for the colonist to not support being colonist anymore but being separated from Britain.

With the restriction of civil liberties, it ranked as the third most important factor as to why it promoted the Americans to rebel. Civil liberties can be defined as the freedom and rights we have for being who we are. And the British had restricted out civil liberty by imposing us with the Navigation Laws which had limited the rights of the colonists in numerous ways as a whole. First, it had restricted the colonials to only trade with the British, with the colonials trading with other parts of the world and gaining huge profits of it, the British felt they had been missing out on the profit. Parliament decided to make Britain the middle man, meaning Britain has sole rights to all colonial trade thus making profit for Britain again which in their own eyes, the only reason for the colonies to exist would be to supply money to Britain. Another way it had limited the colonist’s rights was by publishing paper money. The colonists had every right to publish paper money, but parliament had restricted these rights and said they will have to stick with coins, made out of gold and silver. Being able to on

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