A Little Book of Revolutionary Quotes: Tyranny, Taxes, & Treason

Sugar Act. Currency Act. Quartering Act. Stamp Act. Declaratory Act. Townshend Acts. Tea Act. Intolerable Acts. Great Britain just wanted what was fair: Money to support their efforts in helping the American colonies.

The Founding Generation understood too that Great Britain wanted something: Control. Control over the colonies. Control over the colonists.

Over time, the unheeded requests and petitions of the colonists to Great Britain over grievances produced a forceful backlash. No tax...