Humanities-Letter to king George the III

Humanities-Letter to king George the III

1. taxation without representation

   • Taxes
     • Sugar Act
       • three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. It banned importation of rum and French wines
     • Tea act
       • was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
     • Stamp Act
       • Tax on printed goods
     • Navigation Act
       • to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
   • Main Problems
     • no repressentation at the british parliament
     • to many different taxes taxes
     • moneymade by taxes send dirrecly to britain nothing kept in the colonies
     • money that stays in america is for the wars

2. Limiting of freedom

   • Britsh tacking out all the wrights of the colonist
     • no more comities of correspondance
       • Did not allow the colines to exanche lettesr to each other about the british governament
     • Did not allow them to have their own justice system
       • did not allow the colonists to judge the criminals
     • Proclamation of 1763
       • did not allow the colonists to expand their past the appelation mountains

3. British Soldiers

   • did not like the colonists
   • colonists needed to feed and accomodate the soldiers
   • the colonists hated the british soldiers
   • The colonists hated the british soldiers so much that they created an army (the minutemen) to kill them

4. main point

   • why are the colonists revolting

5. other notes

   • do not be to agressive
   • be polite (use the wight words)