Why were the american colonists taxed

The American Colonists were taxed because Great Britain, their motherland, decided that the colonists need to pay more.  

Explanation:

To put into perspective, the growing number of taxes occurred soon after the end of the French & Indian War, as well as the Coalition vs. Empire (i.e. Rise & Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte). These wars dug deep into the coffers of the British Empire, who saw a deficit in the amount of funding they had. As the citizens of Great Britain who were living in the U.K. already had a large burden of the taxes, the British government decided to transfer some of those burdens to the colonies abroad, including the American colonists.  This is essentially why the American colonies were taxed.

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i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years

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