ritain with a considerable debt and expensive responsibilities to administer newly acquired territory in North America. As a result, Parliament in March 1765 passed the Stamp Act to raise revenue. This act required the colonists to purchase and use specially stamped paper for all official documents, deeds, mortgages, newspapers, and pamphlets. The Stamp Act provoked opposition among the colonists, who saw this as a violation of their rights. To the colonists, the Stamp Act violated the right of English subjects not to be taxed without representation; it also weakened the independence of their colonial assemblies. As a result, protest arose against the Stamp Act. Colonial assemblies tried petitioning the Parliament to have the Act repealed, but that failed. In protest, American merchants banded together promising not to buy British goods. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in March 1766.The next thing that provoked the Revolutionary War was the colonists persecution of civil liberties. Civil liberties are fundamental individual rights, such as freedom of speech and religion, protected by legal guarantee. An example of the colonists civil liberties being infringed upon was the Quartering Act of 1765. The quartering Act made it mandatory that the American colonists had to provide quarters and supplies for the British troops in America. The British saw this as a reasonable requirement, since the troops were stationed in America to provide protection from Indian and French attacks and to defend the frontiers. The colonists, however, saw this as another invasion on their liberties. The colonists did not have a problem with quartering and supplying them , but the fact that it was now mandatory made it worse.As if that was not enough the people that the British sent over to keep order in the colonies were often arrogant, intrusive, sometimes coarse, and provocative. The presence of the British troops was a constant slap in the face ...
