The British taxed goods such as tea in order to pay for government in the colonies. Why would Americans protest the tea tax? (4
points) Americans did not want to pay taxes for anything. Americans wanted to buy tea grown in the colonies. Americans did not want to be taxed by those they did not elect. The colonies wanted to join together and form their own country.
For question 1, Andrew Myrick said " So as far as I'm concerned, if they are hungry let them eat their own dung (dung meaning poop) or grass." That got a lot of people angered.
Because the only way (back then) to process and make sugar farms was through manual labor. Since the Americans didn't want to put effort onto their own sugar farms, Africans were forced to do the labor part for them.
