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The French and Indian War ended
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Britain started taxing the colonist. The Sugar act was when Britain raised taxes on trade items. The Quartering act required housing and supplies for the British troops. The Stamp act put tax on almost all printed material
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When the colonist started getting taxed they didnt have any representation in the British parliament and that angered them.
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The colonies protest came to the attention Europe's leading liberal writers, they spoke about how people have natural rights. So a Virginia man named Patrick Henry made a document called the Virginia Resolves, he argued that the colonial assemblies should only have the right to tax colonist
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