How Did The British Plan To Reform Colonial Relations

Since the first civilization Jamestown, the colonists slowly adapted and improved the environment of the land and gained more and more people due to the rapid overpopulation in England. But as the more advanced and smarter the people got. They began to import and export goods to other countries as a growing country, the British began to levy all kinds of trade regulation and taxes, all to stop the aid it was giving to other world power country that British was enemy and the selfish greed British had to only be the one gaining from the colonist. Therefore causing unsettling feelings of the colonies towards them, as they felt they are been treated unfairly and taking away what they felt is their own right and own money.

To the British, raising revenue was primary. The French and Indian War, which had been part of larger British- French War had been costly for the British, who had been forced to send regular army units to North America. The British looked at the colonies as successful economic entities who could help pay for their own defense.

the colonists and protect them against heavy taxation by the British. In reaction to the

After the French and Indian War ended in 1954, the British government was in a huge debt by the cost of the war spending. In order to pay for this debt, the Parliament set up a system policy that using the colonies as a source to pay for their massive debt. They passed many act like Tea act, Intolerable acts, and Stamp act to increase the paying tax on the colonies which provoked strong antagonism from the colonies people. From 1763-1783, the colonies blindly accepted the tyranny rule by the British which represented the idea of the colony always loyal to them. However, the British didn’t too much to help their colonies instead forced the colony accepted unequal laws which only bring benefits to their homeland, and this problem will never change

“We are not yet recovered from a war undertaken solely for (the Americans) protection,’ (Document H). Whately explains that the colonists are not prepared to be on their own because of the hardship of the French and Indian war. He believes that they still need help and cannot control their own country. “By making this land ‘Indian Territory,’ the British hoped to prevent any further Native American conflicts,” (Document A). The British were lazy, they wanted things to be easier for them.

The problem with the Plan was that the leadership community of the American colonies was more conservative and it was a small government, as well as the fact that the British were not ready to give up such control during a time of war to their own colonists. The British began to tighten their grip on the American colonists with the Proclamation of 1763 and the increase in troops that were present in the colonies. The Proclamation of 1763 dealt with the “Indian” problem, essentially ignoring the native people and restricting colonial ventures to all territory east of the Appalachian Mountains.

This is evident in Document 3 of Outcomes of The French & Indian War, it displays the economy of the British plummeting starting in 1759 since the war was draining their money. They even grants colonists rations of food too, And the ungrateful colonists kept on disobeying the Navigation Acts by smuggling out goods. On the other hand, I think this is incorrect because there still is no justification as to why the colonists get no choice into what to do. According to document two, written in the eyes of a member of the colonial assemblies, it states on lines 7-8 that the war hurt the colonists greatly and many of the innocent families residing on the frontier lost their farms and homes. In addition, on lines 15-17, it explains how the troops are gone, the war is over, there is absolutely no reason to start charging us to for troops that are being placed in America. This shows that the colonies are very angry at how they are being treated. They have even developed a plan against it. In the same document, last section, it expresses that if the British decide to follow through with this, the colonists will not give up their rights to be taxed without

Organized colonial resistance began between the years 1763-1776. The policies of Britain toward their American colonies over this time period escalated tension between the two, and finally led to the rejection of Royal power by the colonies. The British policies caused this outcome because they threatened the colonists’ republican values. These were ideals adapted from the early classical Greek and Roman republics, as well as from laws established by the British. These core beliefs centered strongly on God-given inalienable rights, liberty of the people, and the belief that all should take part in the government. The combination of harsh British policies regarding taxation, settlement and everyday

After having years of benign British neglect, and after capably governing themselves, the people in the American colonies were not pleased when the British Parliament decided after the end of the successful end of the French Indian War in 1763 to become more engaged in the American colonists’ affairs. The British government wanted to protect the American colonies from future Indian and other attacks.

There were many events that led up to the American Revolution. After the British defeated France and the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, Parliament began enforcing colonists to help pay for debts that were accrued during the war. George Grenville, Britain’s chief minister, constructed laws such as the Stamp Act, Sugar Act and Quartering Act. These new policies that set in place tariffs on imports, exports, and regulations on trade, infuriated colonists (Tindall & Shi, pg. 121). Colonist did not want to allow such imposed taxes because the people themselves were not represented as equal British subjects. “The issue of taxation became a question of the colonist’ place in the imperial system” (Calloway, pg. 14). Also, after the British victory in the Seven Year war settlers were eager to expand west. British government wanted the colonist to stay east where trade was a major profit, and to navigate to the north or south. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 establishes the Appalachian Mountains as the boundary line between British and Indian lands. This was in part to keep Indian alliances and to keep control on the settler’s expansion. Henry Ellis, Governor of Georgia, spoke of

America, unlike Great Britain, had the colonists pay light taxes to the colonial government, allowing for whatever needed to be done, to be done, by taxing themselves. Britain’s taxes were for regulation, and not for profit, unlike America up until 1764 when the British Parliament changed all policies and enacted laws to make money from the colonists. This new imperial system consisted of three goals: the ability to provide for colony security, the reassertion of authority over the colonies, and the shift of financial burden of war debt and

The economic control of the Colonies had lessened from British control after the war between the French and the Indians. First of all, Freedom of Press was being devoured by the British in an attempt to decrease their own debt. Document H shows emblems of death which most likely meant death to Freedom of Press, and other Freedoms the colonists wanted to be granted to them but couldn't because of things such as the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was the first non-importation of British goods. English soldiers were not receiving the treatment that they felt was their right as explained in Document D. The British treated the colonists as though they were not worth the good food and liquor, and many colonists didn't want to fight for a country who was supposed to be their ally. Document F explained the British point of view after the war ended, and said how there was not a sufficient source of money being brought in. The British brought in many different types of taxation after that period in time. One of the many was known as the Townsend Act, which was a tax on colonial imports of lead, glass, paint, paper, and tea; resulting in second nonimportation act. The war by the French and the Indians drastically modified the economic power of the British over the

The biggest reason that colonists were becoming disgruntled with their mother country, Britain, was Britain’s heavy debts that Britain had accumulated while fighting wars with France which needed to be alleviated. As with all governments, Britain had to tax its people to procure the funds needed to pay these debts. Britain saw their colonies as thousands of British citizens that they had not taxed satisfactorily. After realizing this, Britain imposed several new taxes on goods imported and exported to and from the colonies. The colonists were livid over the new taxes. After all, Britain had practiced salutary neglect for almost 100 years. Salutary neglect is the practice of leaving one’s foreign acquisitions to their own devices with little to no interference of their government, social, or economic aspects. The colonists immediately began to petition these new taxes. Their logic: “No taxation without representation.”

Have you ever felt like your parents made unfair rules that you had to obey? Or, say, maybe your younger siblings did something to you or caused trouble and you wanted to get revenge, but you were afraid you would get in trouble? Well, travel back in time to around the late 1760s and the early 1770s in the American Colonies. The sun is shining outside, but not inside the colonists. They are angry and their stomachs are growling. For revenge. Back up a couple years. The French and Indian War just ended. Britain won, but it was costly. They're short on food, have lost lots of troops, and have lost some money. After this, King George’s mindset is, Hey, let’s tax the colonists extra so that they're paying for the war cost and the British don't

The British had sent more than 10,000 troops to North America by the end of the French and Indian War. The British felt like they had spent a great deal of money in protecting the American colonists. They were in debt around 140 million pounds. To pay off all of their debt the British decided to increase the enforcement of existing taxes on the Colonists and impose additional taxes. The British issued The Proclamation of 1763 which meant the colonists couldn’t cheat the Indians out of land. They also establish a border in where they could not buy land. This made the colonist mad because it made them feel like the British were interfering and trying to limit their economic growth.