What do sugar and stamps have to do with revolutions?

Question

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Answer 1

Imagine that where you live (let us just say Texas for the purpose fo the answer) was chosen to pay for the war that the US is waging in Iraq.  The other states also pay, but special taxes were created for texas, because texas benefitted from the war too, ans should pay its share (and more, because the other states decided that).  Texas wasn't asked and had no say in the imposition of these taxes that apply only to texas.

Now, if you lived in texas and had this happen to you, would you just accept it or would you be seriously ticked off?

Because that is essentially what happened to the american colonies, the English government imposed special taxes on them, without any asking if they colonists understood the need for them to pay these taxes, and that is what got people all annoyed.  Then, when people protested, the English government sent in the troops to control things.  Not very hard to see where that would lead.

Answer 2

It was during the age Britishers ruled America, India and almost half the World.

They use to wage Wars to protect their hold on these countries.

Expenses for these wars had to be met. So, the levied these sugar and stamp taxes through the Acts.

Answer 3

Sugar Act

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Date: 2007

(1764) British legislation to raise revenue from North American colonies. A revision of the unenforced Molasses Act of 1733, it imposed new duties on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources and provided for the seizure of cargoes violating the new rules. The act was the first attempt to recoup from the colonies the expenses of the French and Indian War and the cost of maintaining British troops in North America. The colonists objected to the act as taxation without representation, and some merchants agreed not to import British goods. Protests increased with passage of the Stamp Act.

Stamp Act

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Date: 2007

(1765) British parliamentary measure to tax the American colonies. To pay for costs resulting from the French and Indian War, the British sought to raise revenue through a stamp tax on printed matter. A common revenue device in England, the tax was vigorously opposed by the colonists, whose representatives had not been consulted. Colonists refused to use the stamps, and mobs intimidated stamp agents. The Stamp Act Congress, with representatives from nine colonies, met to petition Parliament to repeal the act. Faced with additional protests from British merchants whose exports had been reduced by colonial boycotts, Parliament repealed the act (1766), then passed the Declaratory Act.

Answer 4

Taxes forced on the colonists in America by England.  The colonists argued that it was illegal to have taxation without representation.  England pushed them too far, thus began the American Revolution.