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 Taxes! England completely ignored the
"No Taxation without Representation" doctrine of the Magna Carta, and the taxing was
unnecessary and too much. Taxes on tea and paper products such as playing cards and legal documents. Acts! The acts which they passed were made up of mainly taxes,
but also useless laws and boundaries like the the Quebec Ac which was meant
to stop settling colonists from pressing further inland, giving land to Canada, and
making problems with colonists who had already settled land in that territory. The
Intolerable acts were acts limited the citizens basic rights as Englishmen and violated the English Bill of Rights which we all hold most dear.
Secondly, the English soldiers roaming around during peace time in the colonies. The Boston Massacre was an
unnecessary event which should have not occurred. Protesting taxes in front of a tax
collectors house is no reason to kill five people. We can plainly see through Paul Reeves' engraving of this horrific event that the men, women, and children who had gathered outside the
Customs House meant no harm. Additionally, tax paying colonists should not have to worry about armed soldiers during times of
peace. Though there was a law that made colonists house soldiers during wartime, the Quartering Act placed these armed
soldiers on our sacred lands during peace time. This is a way that King George III and the British rulers bent the laws so that the
laws would fit their needs.
The Final argument that we present is the Proclamation of 1763. This law cut off the colonists from the western frontier. These
lands, were homes of many trailblazers and frontiersmen. Because of war costs,
Britain set up this law, and told the colonists a lie. They said they were trying to keep the colonists safe, when actually they were trying to cut down on military costs and keep
the soldiers in the colonies to enforce marshal law on peaceful citizens during this time of peace.
The colonies needed to expand and support their own government, so all the reasons listed helped lead to the breaking away of
the colonies from the tight grip of English tyranny and rule. Also, the Second Continental Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition
to try for peace, but England turned it down bringing the revolution upon themselves. So,
Parliament can blame no one else but themselves. The colonies have good, strong reasons to stand up and fight for freedom.
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