Question

Explain why british believe they had the right to levy taxes on the american colonists

Answer 1

The attempts by Britain to tax its North American colonists led to arguments, war, the expulsion of British rule and the creation of a new nation. The origins of these attempts lay, not in a rapacious government, but in the aftermath of the Seven Years War. Britain was and attempting to both balance finances--through tax--and control the newly acquired parts of their empire, through asserting sovereignty.