King George III taxed sugar, molasses, and rum. He also was responsible for the stamp act. He taxed all legal documents that required a stamp before any circulation.
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King george taxed the colonists because he spent all his money on saving his people in the french and indian war that he felt that the colonists needed to pay him back so he thought of taxing them
because of the french and Indian war he needed to tax colonists to pay off the british troops
Because they opposed the tea tax and did not want to be branded as followers of the King.
The States started to pay tax when it was a British colony. King George raised the tax higher and the Americans rightly objected. This was one of the main reasons they rebelled against the British and won.
Answerthe Revolutionary War started because the colonists had enough of the taxes that King George the third gave out. For example: the intolerable tax, tea tax, and the stamp act.
King George repealed the Stamp Act in 1776. He repealed this act for many reasons. One reason was because the King noticed that the colonists were protesting. Samuel Adams led a mob, that protested against the Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty (a group of people who hated the Stamp act) tar'd and feather'd the tax collectors and burned the taxes and the tax collectors homes.
The King of Great Britain, King George III.