Moreover, as Ashley has mentioned in her speech, the unfair taxation that Parliament repeatedly passed after the Seven Years War economically empowered the British, while emasculating the colonies through the mother country’s strict policy of mercantilism. The Stamp Act, for example, was intended to pay for defense near the Appalachian mountains, making many of us upset due the fact that we they are raising money for them, rather than keeping the balance between the Britain & colonies