<span>The idea of "no taxation without representation" was one of the policies that contributed to the American colonists rebellion. After the French and Indian War, the British government needed to generate revenue. To do this, they turned to the colonists as the war was fought on American soil. The British government taxed several different commodities such as sugar, paper, lead, tea, etc. These acts, like the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, were met by fierce opposition from the colonists.</span>
Slaves were not treated as equals, slaves are already beaten, a man will only pay half the price because the slave isn’t that important, but is still important a bit for the other person to pay half the price, because the slave works and works day and night for their master.that’s all they were considered useful for.
driven by economic ambitions and a sense that the United States was “destined” to span the entire continent, the war also raised the issue of how acquisition of such a large territory would affect the balance between slave and free states.
