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The colonists strongly objected to Parliamentâ??s efforts to expand their authority in the colonies due to financial losses suffered in the Seven Years War. They objected to being heavily taxed and not having direct representation. These grievances had gone unaddressed by Parliament for a decade.
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MaxineAfter the colonists dumped cargoes of tea into the Boston Harbor to rebel against Britain's high taxed on tea,Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts angered the colonists because Britain shut down the harbor so their trade was affected, the colonists were only allowed to have one town meeting a year,and Parliament passed the Quarterin Act. This angered the colonists and called for war by 1775.
High taxes on next to everything, they were tired of being treated as second class citizens, there was the stamp act, tea tax, mollases tax, currency act, hat act all sorts of taxes and restrictions that were placed upon them by King George III.
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Why did american colonist resist the new laws taxes and acts imposed by the king what was the argument?
The American colonists did not have a say in the laws and taxes, so they felt it was unfair to have them imposed. The American Revolutionary War began in 1775.
When did the Revolutionary War begin and end?
The Revolutionary War began about 1776, when the French and Spanish joined the war, and the war ended October, 1781 when a British General surrendered knowing that the war was over.
When did the battles of Lexington and Concord take place?
On April 19, 1775. They were the first battles of the Revolutionary War between the British army and American colonists.
When did the American Revolution start at Lexington and Concord?
The first shots in the American War of Revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19th 1775.
What day month and year did the American war of independence start?
The first military engagement of the American Revolution was the Battle of Lexington and Concord which began on April 19, 1775.
