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The British Of The French And Indian War

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Page 1 of 5 It’s 1763, and the British just signed a treaty with France to mark the end of the French/Indian War (1756-1763). The British were very happy with themselves, they just won the war! They had a right to feel victorious. The British colonies in North America were in that same happy, victorious state. But all that happiness and victory came at a price. The price was the immense debt that Britain faced after the war. The British needed money fast to pay off their debt. But tensions arose when Britain, issued a tax on paper in 1765 dubbed the “Stamp Act”. Their attempt at taking back some of the spent money. The colonists weren’t necesarily angry becuse they had to pay but because the British taxed them without their consent. Later …show more content…

Constitution (1787). This document would forever shield the U.S. citizens from violation of their rights. In the Declaration of Independence, the official cutting of the ties with Britain, there is a whole paragraph of grievances, or complaints targeted at the British. The grievances were a list of all the actions and measures taken by the British that angered the colonists. For example, in Page 2 of 5 1766, the Assembly of New York refused to house British soldiers, Therefore going against the Quartering Act. In reaction, the British promptly shut down the New York government and started to run it themselves. Soon after, New York reluctantly agreed to house British troops again. Once again, it’s things like this that drive the American colonists to cut their ties with Britain. This is the grievance that told that particular story almost ten years after it happened: “For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.” The colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to once and for all establish the fact that the colonies were separating from Britain. This document helped them convey that statement after almost 15 years of anger and frustration with Britain. Another reason they wrote it was because they realized that after eleven years of complaining and asking the British for reform, that their requests were falling on deaf ears and that the

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