Cause: The British enforcing a tax on the colonists made many of the Colonists angry, since they didn’t have representation in British Parliament. The colonists made a move that would greatly impact their freedom in a negative way, and the British, for a short while, took them seriously.
Significance: This major event in history shaped the way the British thought about the Colonists. Since they let us go and do our own thing for about 150 years, we were not only surviving, but we were thriving. It was when the British finally realized that we might become