NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
Great Britain’s victory over France in the French and Indian War (1755–1763) came at a cost. The war was expensive, and Britain’s national debt had nearly doubled during the conflict. King George III and Parliament needed a source of revenue to pay off the debt. One solution was to impose new taxes on the American Colonies. The members of Parliament didn’t think it was too unreasonable. After all, the colonists were British citizens and had benefited from Britain’s success in the war.
Decades earlier, in 1733, Great Britain had attempted to tax the Colonies with the Molasses Act. The act placed
