Please help and if you don´t know please don¨t answer Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution: Crash Course US History #6

1. So in order to pay for the [Seven Years War], the British decided to raise taxes, and, since the primary beneficiaries of the war had been the American , the British government felt it was only fair if some of the burden fell to them.

2. So the taxes themselves weren’t really the [Colonists’] problem; it was their lack of Parliamentary .

3. The Stamp Act declared that all material had to carry a stamp. Unsurprisingly, that stamp was not free.

4. Committees of correspondence, which had been created to encourage opposition to earlier acts, now grew to coordinate the efforts…

5. Overall, boycotts and protests were effective, and British merchants pushed for the repeal of these acts, leaving only a tax on .

6. But the tea partiers miscalculated, thinking that the British would back down in response to their protest. Instead, the British responded by passing a series of acts that colonists came to call the “ Acts.”

7. …it’s not an exaggeration to say that the First Continental Congress was the first of America.

8. The war between colonists and Britain began in 1775 - on April 19th to be exact - when fighting broke out between the British soldiers and Massachusetts men, the minute men, at Concord and Lexington.

9. Anyway, people like Ingles reminds us that not everyone in the colonies was all fired up to be an nation.

10. But anyway America eventually declared independence for many reasons, but persuasive arguments [in Common Sense] were one important reason…