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What was the colonist main object to the British parliaments polices on taxation

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Britain needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War.


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The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.

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