Name three taxes or acts in chronological order that led up to the Declaration of Independence.

There can be no doubt that taxation without proper representation set the stage for the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War. Britain’s debt skyrocketed in the decade before the war and King George III made matters worse by wrongly thinking a heavier tax burden was the solution.

By 1763, taxes were intolerable in Britain and still rising. Previous advisors to the king avoided the issue of taxing the colonies because it was unpopular on both sides of the Atlantic. But during the next four years, the British Parliament began passing laws to raise money through taxing the American colonists. These laws caused severe financial hardships in the colonies and began to engender anger toward the British government. Four acts instituted during this period can be seen as the prelude to the inevitable revolt that would follow.

The Sugar Act (1764)

The Sugar Act placed a tax on molasses, sugar, and other products imported into the American colonies from places outside the British Empire. A similar law, called the Molasses Act, had been passed in 1733, but the people had not obeyed for two reasons:

Explanation:

As for evidence: There is a history of lying to and enslaving spiritual tribes in this world (Back to the Nephilim Giants of which ancient technologies and celestial worship/human sacrifices were alleged to have derived) From 1379 BC The Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) circumscribes the minds of his minions with monotheistic delusion, Aten the Sun God was prophesied to be the main deity and used to take on Tuthmosis IV. Soon after Akhenaten become pharaoh of Egypt. (Persecuted the Israelite's) Pyramids in South America and Africa, celestial worship like Stone Henge and Tiwanaku, Human sacrifices and the depiction of giants seems common place all around the world. http://southamerica2up.wordpress.com/201... Samaria (Today Iraq) http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i395... The Nephilim fled to the new world after Genesis 6:4, later Jos 6:2 and later David. Why did the Aztecs like the Egyptians have pyramids, yet the Indians of North America did not? Which incidentally were later wiped out by European Satanic Imperialism - later finished by politics. (Andrew Jackson's 1830 Rapacious Indian Removal Act)