The chart below lists a series of British taxes on the colonists. • Sugar Act (1764)

• Stamp Act (1765)

Townshend Acts (1767)

Tea Act (1773)

Why did the colonists object to these measures?

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They wanted to elect their own representatives to Parliament

They objected to taxes that were imposed without their consent.

They no longer respected the rule of law.

They were already taxed more heavily than people living in Britain

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The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery