particularly draconian in today's digital age, remember that in the 18th century every document was paper-based. All legal documents, licenses, newspapers, ship's documents, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. Therefore, this tax impacted nearly every colonist living in British ...
1764, to take effect on September 29, the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
construct made from the repossessed body of a Jovian colonist…but there are no known records of colonies on Europa. So whatdraws the Nine here? Unclear. Their interests are opaque. In anycase, the gaze of the Nine is no reason to prohibit Europa—Guardians have gone much further into ...
Also, in 1773 the Boston Tea Party takes place as the colonist disguise themselves, and they discard all the tea into the harbor. While many more events took place during 1763 to 1776, the American colonist still persistent at their unwillingness to pay their share of the taxes that had ...
and Parliament felt the burden of paying it off should not be borne by British taxpayers alone, but by the colonists as well, especially since they were the main beneficiaries of the war’s victorious outcome. The result was the Sugar Act of 1764, which placed a tax on molasses of three...
“No taxation without representation” meant for the colonist18 that taxes ought to be levied69 by a legislative70 body in which was seated a person known and voted for by the person taxed. An Englishman only asked that there be “no taxation except that voted by the House of Commons.”...