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1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"

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After the French and Indian war ended the relationship between the British and the colonies changed. The Native Americans had enough of the British settlers and ended up attacking them resulting in 2,000 lives lost between native Americans and British settlers. Although before 1763 the colonists had largely accepted the parliament's right to be able to take action on their behalf. As well as the importance of England's economic interests over its own. While before the French and Indian war just about all of the parliamentary actions had been for something trade related. The Proclamation had reserved land located west of the Appalachian mountains primarily reserved for Indians.
Trying to enforce the proclamation as well as they possibly could Britain decided to station up 10,000 along the frontier, while it was at a cost of 250,000 pounds. People feared that if they walled in the eastern coasts that most cities would overcrowd and would result in overpopulation.

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The sugar act was repelled in 1766 because of all the protests and boycotts. Most wines were taxed but they did not tax French wine. The Parliament desired revenge on its North American colonies, once they passed the first law it was aimed specifically at raising colonial money for the crown. Once the act was passed it increased duties for non-British goods being shipped to colonies. The sugar act also cut the duties on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, which also retained high duty on any foreign refined sugar as well as prohibited being able to have importation of any rum. Greenville took many measures to make sure the duties would be strictly enforced. Most if not all of the colonists were angered by the sugar act changes, especially in Boston and New England economics. They used sugar and molasses to make their rum which happened to be their main export of trade with other countries. For the people who didn't have to smuggle things it didn't affect them as much, but they increased law enforcement of smuggling laws which was carried out by the royal navy and the British custom officials. Increased law enforcement did decrease the smuggling but it also caused disruption for local business which resulted in the post-war depression economically in the colonies extremely worse. While the sugar act affected many people it mostly impacted business merchants and shippers.

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The colonists responded to the parliament's acts by boycotting, tar and feather, and effigy. The stamp act was passed on march 22 1765 which required American Colonists to pay taxes on every piece of paper they used wheater it was Ship paper, Legal documents, Licences, newspapers, and publications, they were even taxing playing cards. The stamp act was ratified by the British parliament under King George III's authority. While it had imposed taxes on all legal documents in the American colonies although not in England.
The Stamp act had resulted in violent protests in America which the colonists began agruing that there should be "
No taxtation without representation" and the protests had went against the British consitution to be forced to pay a tax that they had not agreeed through representation in the parliment. British were attempting to raise revenue through the direct taxation of all of the colonial commerical and legal papers they even taxed pamplets, dice, and almanacs. The colonists were disapproving of the British parliment for various reasons but especially because the British didn't even think to give the colonists a say if they wanted the stamp act to become a new law.

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The stamp act congress is also known as the continental congress of 1765 which was a meeting held in New York, consisting of representative from the British colonies in North America. Stamp act congress was the first unified meeting held of the American colonies as a response to the British taxation on all legal documents. Timothy Ruggles of Massachusetts who was the president of congress had refused to sign the stamp act resolves. Eventually in the end however the spirt of congress was prevailed, every colonial legislature except for one had agreed of the Stamp act resolves. The stamp act congress had decided to meet in the Federal hall building in New York city between October 7 and October 25 1765, it was also the first colonial act made against the British. While the Stamp act congress was an attempt at trying to repeal the stamp act that was issued to help pay British stationed in the colonies, so the merchants were in agreement about the stamp act being repealed.

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Although some in the parliament believed that the army should have been used to enforce the Stamp Act of 1765, others commended the colonists for resisting the tax being passed by a legislative body in which they were not represented. Eventually, the act was repealed, and the colonies began abandoning their ban on all of imported British goods. During the Stamp act, most of Americans had called for a boycott of any British goods, and some even organized attacks on the customs houses and the homes of tax collectors. After many months of protesting and an appeal made by Benjamin Franklin before the British house of commons. Shortly after the parliament held a vote which resulted in the Stamp Act being repealed in March 1766. There were also mobs of people in the seaport towns who were turning away any ships carrying the stamp papers from England and not allowing them to discharge their cargo. The determination of the colonial resistance made it nearly impossible for the British government to be able to bring the Stamp act into effect, they couldn't force the colonists to buy the legal documents that have been tax stamped as well as being able to make a profit due to all of the boycotts.

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The declaration by the British parliament that was accompanied by the repeal of the stamp act in 1765. It had stated that the British parliament's taxing authority was now the same in America and was also the same in Great Britain. The Parliament had been directly taxing the colonies for revenue in the sugar act of 1764 and also the stamp act of 1765.  This act was issued as an attempt to better secure the dependency of his majesty's domains in America upon the crown and also the parliament of Great Britain. When the parliament decided to repeal the Stamp act they didn't want the colonists to believe they would just give in to their protests. The parliament wanted to make sure they had affirmed authority over the colonists as they passed the declaratory act, which evidently stated that the parliament had "full power" and also the authority to make laws in any case whatsoever. While the colonists were thrilled about the Stamp act being repealed when the declaratory act was passed it posed new threats to their remaining independence. In 1766 and to most of the colonists knew England had the ability to tax colonies with absolutely no representation in parliament was seen as disrespectful and disgraceful to the colonists.

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While the Townshend acts still continued the British places new taxes on goods without giving the colonists representation in parliament, which was another way of them abusing their power over the colonies. While they kept taxes on paper, they also began taxing other things such as paint, glass, lead and even tea. Townshend acts were the British creating more measures imposed upon the American colonists. It was the British's desire to raise revenue as well of trying to punish the colonists, also was another attempt at trying to forcefully assert the authority of the British parliament. These effects were quite widespread, dissatisfaction, protests, the boycotts of British goods. Custom officials had the authority to enter any private houses and business to search for any potentially smuggled goods. While the British were trying to be more assertive with their authority of taxing more imports of British goods many of the American colonies would refuse any imported British goods in most American port cities. Evidently because American colonies were refusing the British imports the British parliament decided to partially repeal the Townshend duties. Although March 1770 almost all of the taxes had been repealed by parliament under Fredrick, Lord North's Authority.

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British repel taxes besides sugar tax 1770

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British repel taxes besides sugar tax 1770

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The colonists had many successful protests as on March 5th, 1770, almost all of the taxes hated by the colonists had been officially repealed. Taxes imposed on tea were still remaining from the Townshend act. Unfortunately for the British parliament was too late to be able to calm the angry colonists. That very night violence from the colonists erupted in which is most famously known as the Boston massacre. While the colonists still were very unhappy with all of taxes the British parliament has imposed on them without any representation, they have already had gotten the Stamp act, Declaratory act, Townshend acts repealed or at least partially modified in their favor. Since the colonists began boycotting for all of the Acts the British parliament tried to impose upon American colonists the British were losing so much business, so they were forced to remove the taxes. Eventually the colonists also argued they were not being represented in government they couldn't be taxed without representation.

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By this time the British parliament was more than determined to assert their authority in a way that the colonists could not overrule them once again. The main force of British's actions happened to fall upon Boston which unfortunately appeared to be the center of the colonial hospitality. While the other acts only consisted of one act each while the intolerable acts consist of four different acts, which were the Boston port act, Massachusetts government Act, Administration of justice act and the Quartering Act. The Boston Port act was a result of the Boston massacre, In the Boston Port act they ended up closing the city's harbor until restitution was made for all of the tea that was destroyed. Next the Massachusetts Government Act was to reduce the colony's charter of 1691 to a crown level colony, replacing the entire elective local council with one appointive. Also enforcing the powers of the military governor at the time was Gen. Thomas Gage, who would forbid town meetings without any approval. Third was the Administration of Justice Act, which was aimed at protecting the British officials who were charged with capital offences during the law enforcement by give them permission to go to England or any other colony for trial. The Fourth intolerable act was the Quartering Act, which had been allowed to expire in 1770 but was passed on June 2, of 1774. The new Quartering act however applied to all of British America and permitted colonial governors the right to requisition any unoccupied buildings to house the British troops. Unfortunately, in Massachusetts the British troops were forced by General gage to remain camped on the Boston following until the upcoming November, due to the fact patriots were refusing to allow the workmen to repair vacant buildings that General Gage had obtained for the Quarters.

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The tea act was passed by the parliament on May 10, 1773, giving permission to the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. In an attempt to save the troubled enterprises the British Parliament the Tea act was created, which granted the company permission to be able to ship its tea directly into the colonies without having to first land in England. As well as to commission agents who had the sole right to continue to sell tea in the American Colonies. This angered the colonists because once again they were being taxed without any representation, but this time the East India Company had a monopoly on any sales in the colonies. As a result of the colonists still being taxed without representation, they began boycotting the tea once again in hopes they would finally get the representation they believed they deserved.
The British Parliament passed the tea act also because it was a bill signed to try and save the faltering East India Company from becoming bankrupt by greatly lowering the tax on tea it paid to the British government and also granting it a de facto monopoly on all American trade. Merchants who had been importing tea were now out of business. During the Boston Tea party on December 16th, 1773 over $90,000 were destroyed by the colonists that night.