Question

What economic policies violated the colonists civil liberties and lead to the revolution

Answer 1

The American Revolution began as a dispute over the way Great Britain treated the colonies and the way the colonies felt should be treated by Great Britain. During 1607 until 1763 the "Salutary Neglect" system imposed by the British was in place, during this system, the British were careless regarding the implementation of external commerce relations. The British believed that this freedom would motivate commerce, but due to the French And Indian War, the British implemented more taxes on the colonists, in order to recover from the economic troubles in which this War left them.

This did not got over well for the colonists. New taxes were imposed including The Sugar Act , which taxed sugar and cut molasses tax in half; and The Currency Act, which forbidden the printing of the money in the colonies as an effort to control the colonies. The colonists felt that they had insufficient representation, they also felt overtaxed, and not able to pay a part of free trade, so they started to use the sentence "No Taxation Without Representation".