Without the British taxes, the American Revolution may have never occurred. After the British Parliament passed the Port Act of 1774 (related to demanding money from the colonists) which further taxed the colonists, the colonists held the First Continental Congress, likely as a response to this and many other acts. Additionally, in the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson writes that he the colonists were mad at the British “For imposing Taxes on [them] without [their] Consent.” The famous