Boston Tea Party The colonist in 1773 had endured several attempts to tax them by their mother country, but the tax on tea was the breaking point. Britain had been defending the colonist with their Navy, and incurring a lot of debt in the process. The mother country decided to try recouping so...

Soon after England established the colonies in the New World, it began a period of salutary neglect. The English rarely intervened with colonial business. It was during this time that the colonies began gradually to think and act independently of England. This scared England, and initiated a period...

The reasons that caused the American Revolution , and also played very significant roles were simply by economic and political reasons. After the French-Indian War the British Government decided to reap greater benefits from the colonies. The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without an...

British Taxation in the Americas Benjamin Murphy British taxes in the Americas began in 1651 starting with the Navigation Acts. Most of the taxation started because of the war debts of England and the colonists revolts against the king. The taxes were a way to collect money of goods traded...

The events leading to the American Revolution began as soon as the English settlers set foot in Northern America and lasted for about one and one-half centuries. When America was discovered and settled by the English, there was no "set" way of governing these colonies. The King and the British Pa...