The imperial crisis was a crisis fought for a long time between the colonists and the parliament. This crisis occurred between the years 1763 and 1775. Before the imperial crisis, the Seven Years' War was fought between the major European powers. This war caused a large amount of debt to England, which then fell on the shoulders of the colonists. This led to parliament creating many laws that would tax the colonists on many items, unfairly. Another reason why colonists were taxed so heavily and why these laws were created was mercantilism. Mercantilism was the belief that the colonies were there for financial support for the mother country, which in this case was Europe. The colonists, “the Americans,” finally got tired of how they had been treated unfairly by England and fought back. This crisis has had many events/consequences that have become more aggressive as the years have passed and as the acts have become more unjust. 1Some of these laws included the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, the Townshend Duties, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts. These acts all had different goals, but were all extremely unfair to the colonists. The Sugar Act, also known as the Revenue Act, was passed by parliament in 1764. The goals of this act were to make customs regulations more stringent and impose new taxes on foreign items imported into America, the colonies. The Stamp Act, passed in 1765, was a tax on all printed materials, which includes: newspapers, stamps, playing cards, if you made a will, etc. This act basically imposed a tax on all materials that needed to be printed, which is a lot of items and can increase in price. If the printed language was foreign the tax price was doubled. Another thing that was mandatory with... middle of paper... after this incident the Intolerable Acts were passed and the Americans were fed up, they agreed to send delegates to Philadelphia to attend the Continental Congress. The Continental Congress was the governing body of the colonists during the American Revolution.1 These Acts of Parliament ultimately led to the American Revolution because the colonists were tired of being treated unfairly and they were tired of being deprived of their rights. The Continental Congress wrote the Declaration of Independence, a document that declared the colonists' independence from Great Britain. The colonists resented Parliament for taxing them internally and directly. The passage of these laws all began as financial matters, but eventually became a matter of having an imperial government.2 If the legislation had never reached the colonists, there might be no United States today.