Tactics Against the British Taxes

     Colonists didn't know what to do, they where looking for ways to stop the British Parliament from taxing them, so they decided to come up with 3 tactics they would use to protest.
     One of the tactics was intellectual protests which consisted of them giving speeches and trying to make their opinions and thoughts being heard. For example they used to just go out side in the streets and say what they really thought about taxes, obviously they where against it so all they said was negative and it was affecting the Parliament because it made other people developed doubts about them. This caused an impact because British where not used to hearing things that where against them and much less in such a public way. Things that where being said was because people from the Parliament support it but now that the colonists came without any worries and they did a huge mess and challenge the British Parliament by speaking out loud.  This made the british parliament very angry and they took another actions about it which made things worst.

      Apart from intellectual protests, colonists also made economic boycotts. This tactic was very successful because it made British worry since their economy was totally going down. This economic boycotts consisted of an nonimportation agreement. What colonists did was that they resist from buy things from the British, things like clothing, tea, carbon and a lot of other stuff that brought them a lot of economic benefits. Colonists considered that it was to expensive to buy those things and that they still had to pay taxes, so they just started to say no. This is when women in colonies played a huge roll, thanks to their help when they make their own cloth and made their husbands and sons cloth, also they started to help in jobs that just men used to do. British Parliament thought that the nonimportation agreement was not going to last long but they where very wrong, colonists notice that they actually wouldn't die without all of those British things. They started to be less depending of British and that is one of the reasons that made de British even angrier because they where used to rule everything and everyone.

   Problems that seem to have no way out lead to frustration. That is exactly what happened to colonists,   since taxes where getting higher and higher and it seem like something that would never end and they thought it was totally unfair, well they started to use the last tactic they had, which was violent intimidation against the British and everyone that supported them. Colonists started to burn houses that belong to people who supported the British, also they burn house of taxes which definitely showed the reason they where doing it and it was kind of a message to British Parliament. Other violent act they used was that if you where in favor of taxes they grabbed you and throw you hot tea in their throat so they make them suffer in a non human way, so that would make that people afraid of colonists and maybe they would stop supporting the British.

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     Intellectual protests and economic boycotts may not be accepted but they did where justify because thing where being unfair but colonists went a little bit far because they had no right to do that. All this tactics what did was to start the revolutionary war because neither British nor Colonists where giving up.
  

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