The
colonists' objection was that they were denied the rights of Englishmen; specifically the right
to be taxed only by their duly elected representatives.
The Seven Years War
(the French and Indian War in America) had been costly to the British Empire, and since the war
had been fought to protect the colonists, it seemed reasonable to George Grenville, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the colonists should assume some small part of the debt. He
also was determined to put a stop to the smuggling that had been rampant in the colonies. Among
the measures Grenville pushed through Parliament:
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