Parlimentary Taxation
... However, when taxation, or the raising of the taxes, was brought upon the Colonies, they deemed themselves worthy of deciding their own fate. ... Even though not fully enforced, it was the beginning of the precedent of taxation and the recession of taxation. Taxation acts were passed and then subsequently nullified to appease the growing population of Colonial America. ... Taxation in the Colonies were thought of as being something that each citizen had the right to control, and since none of the Colonists were a member of the Parliament, ignited a rebellion that would lead to the independence of a separate nation. ... With the anger and suppression of the taxation without representation, the Colonies forced the British government to repeal the Stamp Act in 1765, after a demonstrative boycott of the goods. ... Taxation without representation was to become the new slogan of the Colonies. ... The taxation that was forced onto the Colonies was the major factor prompting the Revolutionary War with its mother country, England.