The Revolt

The colonies revolted against the British Empire, because most of the people who moved to America came there to be free. The British government imposed taxes without consulting any of colonies. Taxing the colonies violated one rights, which is the right to only be taxed by their duly elected representatives. The British empire additional taxed the colonies for the French and Indian war. The colonist rebelled against the Stamp Act and in March of 1776 the Parliament revoked it. In December 1773 a group of colonist dressed up like Indians and dumped tea out into the Boston harbor. This was called the Boston Tea Party and this boycott was led by John handcock. Handcock was smuggling tea with out paying taxes and this led to the tea act. This made the  East India Company to sell tea to the colonies directly, thereby allowing them to sell for lower prices than those offered by the colonial merchants and smugglers. The intolerable acts was passed in 1774 by the parliament and this was just a series of laws.The Quebec Act was also passed in 1774 also,but it was a piece of legislation unrelated to the Coercive Acts. American Whigs were alarmed by the Quebec Act and they labeled this as one of the "Intolerable Acts". The main complaints inthe Quebec Act was the protections granted to the Indian territories and to the Catholic settlers in Ohio. The last revolt was the Boston massacred. This happens in 1770. The British soldiers killed five civilians.