Name one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.
Réponse officielle
- High taxes
- Taxation without representation
- British soldiers stayed in Americans’ houses (boarding, quartering)
- They did not have self-government
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party (Tea Act)
- Stamp Act
- Sugar Act
- Townshend Acts
- Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
Explication
Colonists objected to British taxation without colonial representation in Parliament, restrictions on self-government, and measures such as quartering troops. Those grievances helped lead the colonies to declare independence.