Blog 2

The colonies revolted against the British Empire because they felt like they weren't being treated like Englishmen by the British. They also hated the new taxing laws put on them by British, the taxing caused importing and exporting goods to be much more expensive. When the stamp act was published in 1765, it created an excise tax on newspapers, customs documents, licenses college diplomas, and most legal documents. The stamp act was popular in England but in the colonies, it was disagreed on heavily. The colonies objected the Stamp act and later caused the Parliament to revoke it in 1766.
In the year 1770 the Boston Massacre happened. A angry mob of colonist that were mostly drunk started to yell and throw things at a group of English soldiers. Because of the repeated yelling and throwing of things, one of the soldier misfired and lead to all of them firing at the crowd, killing 5 colonist. This caused and outrage in the colonies but in the end, the soldiers were proven not guilty because of the way the colonist treated him.
Another rebellion by the colonist was the Boston Tea Party. Because of all of the taxes that the British put on the colonies, the colonist wanted to fight back. On the night of December 16, 1773, the group called the Sons of Liberty boarded British merchant ships and threw over 342 boxes of tea into the sea. All of these acts of retaliation lead both sides to grow closer to declaring war on each other in the future.