Loosening Ties : A Tradition Of Neglect

In conclusion, the French and Indian War had many effects on the Britain-colonial relationship. The war led to England growing stronger as a leader and having more domination, but also contributed to American colonists losing the bondage between them and England. The war also caused suggestions of American independence to multiply and essentially changed the mindset of both Britain and the

Since they didn’t have the resources to keep fighting, they had to surrender and sign the Proclamation of 1763. This contract ordered the colonists out of the frontier, but many colonists didn’t follow this order. Many colonists did not follow this order because there was too much profit to be made, not to mention, it is hard to govern colonies from an entire ocean. The king was furious with them for disobeying and violating the contract. Great Britain put a tax on sugar. They did that so the colonies would raise money for them to protect the colonies from Native Americans. This was called the Sugar Act. The colonists were upset about this act because they believe they did not start the war with the French and Indians. They felt like they had no part in Parliament. As a result, Samuel Adams founded the Committees of Correspondence to improve communication among the colonies in the disagreement with England. There was a lot of conflict with this act the conflict will continue on through the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was all about taxing paper items. It taxed licenses, newspapers, and colonial paper products. The colonists thought this was a really unfair act being passed. This act caused a series of resolutions to be published. The series of resolutions stated that the act violated the rights of the colonists. The Stamp Act was later on repealed by Parliament in 1766. After this act was repealed,

And in order to collect the taxes, the Bratians raisen the Sugar Act and Stamp Act to put more restrictions on colonial trade and forced colonists to buy special stamped paper. That makes conlonist getting angry and to against the "Taxation without representation", the only thing they want to do is to elect their own colonial legislatures. Also the Proclamation of 1763, bans them from crossing and going to the settlement of the west. So the colonial rebellion is reasonable, they just deserved to have much more control over their own government. For the resistance, colonies coordinate to boycott the British goods. And the matter was worsened when the British government enforced the Townshend Acts through force, it imposed taxes on imported goods from Britain, which really hurt many colonial merchants. And colonies respond that with more boycott. Although the Tea Party removed taxes on tea sold by British, but American tea still taxed. So on the December 16th, 1776 the Boston Tea Party dump 90,000 pounds of tea into the ocean to resist. But after that, British soldiers flooded into Boston, and colonists had to feed and lodge them. The Continental Congress was formed to reason the King George, in the attempt to keep the peace between Britaish and colonies, but he refused the negotiation, and sent troops to

During the 17th and 18th century, English residents felt that England was over-crowded and intolerable. They wanted to lessen these problems that rose up because of the large population increase and to establish more religious freedom (Horn). The English believed that the best way to go about this was to colonize the New World. Subsequently, many colonies began to develop, and of these colonies, Massachusetts Bay and Virginia were the most well-known. The early settlements of Massachusetts and Virginia were both established by similar groups of people at the same time; furthermore, their contrasting beginnings as a colony, views on religion, and method of economic stability all contributed to our American heritage today.

During the 1700s there began to be uneasiness and frustration amongst the colonist. Much of the frustration grew because of the unfair dominion that

European explorers first landed on the shores of what would later become North America more than 500 years ago. Not long after the first explorers had entered the "New World" they found out that they were not alone on this new frontier. Their neighbors in this new land were the Native Americans who had been there for centuries, virtually unaware of life outside the continent. Thus began an inconsistent and often times unstable relationship between the European settlers and the North American Indians. Two nations who had particularly interesting relationships with the Native Americans were the British and the French, both of whom took different approaches to their relations with the Indians economically as well

As time went on many of the settlers avoided the Indians all together. This forced the natives to start trade with the French

The French and Indian War was a war between England and France over the Ohio River Valley in North America. To settle this conflict, the Proclamation of 1763 was written up saying that the colonists could not settle west any further. This increased tensions between the colonists and Great Britain because the colonists felt negatively affected by this proclamation.

The French and Spanish brought their own ways of how they handle the native situation in the new world. The French thought it would be a good idea to team up with the natives, since there were already so many inhabiting the area. The Spanish on the other hand thought that deceiving the natives by making them work in the encomienda systems was the best way to gain profit for their mother country. The English were in the middle of both circumstances. The colonies tried to conquer as much as land as possible by wiping out the environments and killing off natives in those areas, yet they did respect their boundaries. People in the colonies focused on different ways to trade, by watching how their rivals did it. Colonists immediate contact with Indians and others, quickly allowed them gain knowledge of their surroundings, thereby giving them a sense of individuality under a different union rather than

The French experienced the best relationship with the natives as they were very cooperative with the Natives, peacefully tried to convert them and married Native women and integrated with them. The Spanish came behind the French as they integrated with them as well however they were much more violent in exploiting them for resources through systems like the encomienda system. However, the English had the most tarnished relationship with the Natives as they looked to expand at the Natives expense and saw the Natives as inferiors.

The colonists were not allowed to send products to other countries or had to pay large tariffs to send them there so that England profited

1. Explain the early policies set in place by the Board and their impact upon the American colonies. The Board of Trade was put in place by the English in 1969, which took place of the Lord of Trade (Nash et al., 2008). Its purpose was to examine all of the colonial legislation and the laws that inhibited the potential of their imperial trades.

This created tension with the Political relationship with Great Britain. The Indians fought alongside the French in the French and Indian war with the hope that white settlers would keep out of their land. However when the Treaty of Paris was signed, the French gave up most of their land, with the exception of New Orleans, to the British (Document A). Both the Indians and the White knew of the value of the Indian lands, and the Natives were not so ready to just let the settlers to come into their lands and destroy it (Document B). To avoid any further conflict the British government issued the Proclamation of 1763.

The infringement upon their liberties to which Richard Henry Lee was referring was largely an economic concern for the colonists. Taxes and duties implemented solely by the British government and the Navigation Acts limited trading rights. The colonists believed that they held the right to tax themselves, especially since there were no Americans in Parliament. After this claim England replied that colonists were represented by “virtual representation” as a result of the Magna Carta. The inferred inferiority of the Americans to Britons by this fallacy insulted colonists and further pushed them into unrest, causing a movement that resulted in the Non-Importation Agreements being enforced The Non-Importation Agreements demonstrated the power of the American colonists over the depressed English economy. Once the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts were repealed, there was no turning back for the seditious Americans; they had discovered who truly was dependent on whom.

Although there were many changes during this time period in terms of their views on self-government, they still considered themselves a part of the British Empire. Even during the Tradition of Neglect, they only lost faith in the current government, not all of England. The colonies relied on Great Britain for many of their resources, as well as their economy. There was extensive trade between England and the colonies, and both places relied heavily on the income that was created from participating in the Atlantic Trade