Proclamation Of 1763 Dbq Analysis

Parliamentary taxation was the catalyst to the slew of problems the Americans were having with their over-seas overlords. The preliminary Parliament-imposed tax that threatened the colonies was the Molasses Act, which was caused by profit loss for the British under the Navigation Acts, and their need to recoup

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “No gains without pain.” This could not be more of a true statement when speaking of the American Revolution. There are so many factors that are said to have caused it, that it's hard to determine what never needed to happen. Because of the French and Indian War, the British were suffering from debt. They needed the find a way out; therefore, new laws and acts were established. If the British would have treated the colonists as friends instead of their instant way out of dept, we could have never seen independence. Another reason that the American Revolution couldn’t have been avoided; because the colonists had already learned to fight, were tired of British

There was no one event that started the American Revolution. This paper will address the problems that lead to the start to the American Revolution. The colonists believed that they should live democratically. Britain felt that they owned the American colonies and they could use their resources in any way that they wished. The colonists did not want to live being ruled by another country. The major events that led to the American Revolution were the French and Indian War, Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party and Lexington Concord.

During the time period of 1600 to 1776, the relationship between Great Britain and the colonies changed massively. The relationship between Great Britain and the colonies changed greatly because of three main reasons: the relationships that the colonies and Great Britain were built on, the struggles that the colonists faced because of their relationships with Great Britain, and the anger that the colonists expressed because of the ridiculous taxes that they had to pay. Once the colonists realized that they were suffering under British rule, most of the colonists became eager to be independent from Great Britain. The colonists’ Second Continental Congress believed that the acts and taxes created by the British Parliament were unconstitutional, unjust, and unfair towards the colonists and because of that belief, the Declaration signers forever changed our country.

Many people disagree with the British because they put taxes on the colonists. Many people also question whether the American revolution was avoidable. I believe the American Revolution was avoidable. Three reasons why the American revolution could have been avoided were that if both sides hadn’t reacted so violently, if the British had put a reasonable tax,and if the British actually listened to the colonists when they said they did not like the taxes that were put on them.

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

They thought that there was not good enough reason for the new taxes. England on the other hand stated that they taxed the colonist more because they were nearly bankrupt after the French and Indian War. That felt someone had to help compensate and since the American colonies benefited more. They need to bear most of the cost for England’s’ protection and administration. (Pg.536). Between 1763 and 1774, the government passed a new series of laws; placing the colonies under strict restrictions and making them pay higher taxes.

Following the French and Indian War, the American colonists believed they were entitled to the lands gained through the Treaty of Paris in 1763. King George III believed that with the issuing of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, The passage of the Proclamation Line of 1763 created tensions between the American colonists, British crown, and Native Americans due to the closing of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains which was viewed as an attempt to deprive colonists of land in favor of Native Americans.

When you research about weather or not the American Revolution was inevitable it seems there is many different answers and opinions. The most common opinion is that yes the American Revolution was in fact inevitable. With the distance between the British and the colonies it was hard for the British to keep a close eye on the colonies. One of the main reasons the British was not needed any more by the colonies was because there was no other military power on the continent of North America so there was not a possible threat that the colonies would be over taken. If the British government would have been willing to cut some sort of a deal or lessen the taxes most americans would have most likely been accepting to this rather than go through the trouble of a war. The war was not completely what the American people wanted but it was in some ways what they where forced to do because the taxes and rules had gotten so strict.

a) After the French and Indian War, the London government issued its Proclamation of 1763 and it flatly prohibited settlement in the area beyond the Appalachians. The Proclamation of 1763 established a line in the Appalachian Mountain range that separated the British settlers from the Ohio River valley and this Proclamation said that British settlers could not take up residence west of this line.

The colonists did not mind the taxes as much because some of the items that were taxed were unnecessary, however they did mind that the British were using their power as an excuse to tax the people for no reason (controlling them). The people’s money was not used in a useful matter, it was used for nothing, just extra money for the British to have. “The raising of revenue… was never intended… Never did the British parliament, (until the passing of the Stamp act) think of imposing duties in America for the purpose of raising a revenue. The Townshend Acts claim the authority to impose duties on these colonies, not for the regulation of trade… but for the single purpose of levying money upson us.” (Document 2). The British just decided one day to just tax the colonies for no reason and the people had no say in it. Also, the British soldiers would come to Boston and take the Boston colonists jobs. Men and women would lose their jobs because the British would take it away from them, they were stealing people’s jobs. The British were taking their money and now their jobs after all the colonists did for them in the French and Indian war. That is not fair for them to run the people like that and it had to be

British imposed acts and events against the colonies which put strain on their relationship, which lead to the Revolutionary War. I believe that the Revolutionary War was not avoidable, but only to an extent.

. In response to this, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, creating an Indian boundary on the border of the Appalachians and prohibiting colonists from settling lands further west. This proclamation can be contributed to the fact that England had to protect the millions of people in the 13 colonies and prevent them from starting a war with the Native Americans, England also had to take control of 60,000 French speaking people in Canada and around the Great Lakes. The colonists were eager to settle in the Appalachians and create farms there because of the unruly ever-growing population in the east. The proclamation pushed disgruntled and land-hungry colonists closer towards protesting England which would lead to England losing

Consequently, the British Parliament imposed taxation on the colonists in the 1760’s. The colonists resented this intrusion, for they felt they were not truly represented in the British government. Taxation without representation became the rallying cry of the colonists.

The royal proclamation is not without its flaws, like everything else. One flaw that existed within the royal proclamation was that the scripting of it, and the negotiation of the wording of it did not include indigenous leaders at the time. Indigenous leaders were not engaged in the scripting of the proclamation itself, and that’s true. Royal proclamations are issued decrees that are designed by a government and issued by the King. In this instance, the royal proclamation of 1763 was scripted by the British monarch and issued by its leader, King George III. So the royal proclamation of 1763 is not a treaty. It was not something that was negotiated. However, it became something intriguing because of a fellow named Sir William Johnson. In the