To What Extent Was Britain's Response To The British Imperial Policy

After winning the French and Indian war, Great Britain’s economy entered economic downturn, causing great strain on the ruling power.

The effects after the French and Indian War created an unbalanced relationship between Britain and the British colonies. The victory allowed Britain to expand their territory, but also brought Britain in great debt. Britain believed that Parliament should have more authority over the colonists and so they put in Acts to enforce their rules. The many different Acts created resentment throughout the colonies towards their mother country. The French and Indian War also had the effect on the colonies and the colonists because they all fought together and were unified. Before the war, the colonies were very untrustful of each other, but the war helped them fight against a common enemy. The French and Indian War caused Britain to enforce

The French and Indian war was fought between Great Britain and France from 1754 to 1763. Also known as the Seven Year’s War, this confrontation eventually erupted into an all out worldwide conflict. Its effects were not only immediate but long term. Although the colonies were not directly tied to the war, it greatly impacted them as well as modern America.

From a British economic standpoint, the French and Indian War, in addition to the Seven Years War, plunged them further and further into a seemingly endless mountain of debt. Profits and taxes were insufficient to keep the country afloat: “[the] revenue…is small and inconsiderable…” (Document F). This caused Britain to heavily tax its own citizens. The British citizens saw no justice in this, as they centered on the fact that their tax money was paying for American wars and military. The military

Additionally, Britain began imposing different taxes on the colonies after the war, which greatly changed the relations between

The American colonies were justified in their response to the taxes King George III and Parliament applied on the colonist as Britain allowed this new world to form its own reality and sense of independence by refusing to financially support the colonies and ignoring the large gap that developed over time between the colonies and Britain.

While ideological differences may have contributed to the change from a friendly relationship to a hostile one, economics became a major factor as well. The British policy of salutary neglect originally had the colonists enjoying the benefits of trade and protection from the British without having the discomfort of rigid control. However, as the war progressed the British changed from the well-liked policy of salutary

Britain established a series of acts to control the colonies and this became the main cause of the revolution. These acts enabled

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

This soon fueled the beginning of the Proclamation of 1763, which made an impact on the political relationship between Britain and its colonies. The Proclamation was an aim by the British to stop further clashing. The colonists were furious about this. They viewed it as an obstacle towards being free. Britain also deserted its policy of salutary neglect. The Native Americans believed "they had no right to settle."(Document B). After the occurrence of the French and Indian War, England was left with a large debt that they had gained during the earlier years of trouble. This resulted in strict international trade barriers and taxation on common goods such as whiskey and tea. Britain use the excuse of their “virtual increase in territory,"(Document F), to try and keep the colonists from becoming

The relations between England and the British North American colonies could always be considered precarious. Prior to 1750 British essentially followed a policy of benign neglect and political autonomy in the American colonies. (Davidson p.97) The colonies were for the most part content with benign neglect policy, relishing in a “greater equality and representative government”(Davidson p.95) within the colonies. Competition among European Imperial nations began to effect British policy toward North America colonies causing rapid shifts from 1750 to 1776. During this period, the British Empire made a series of policy decision that sealed the fate of the British North American

Great Britain followed a policy of salutary neglect in its relationship with the American colonies in the years previous to the Revolutionary War to keep the Americans happy and loyal to Britain during their expansion. The Crown enforced the policy to restrain from enforcing strict laws of parliament; the colonists were allowed to violate the laws associated with the trade. After giving the Americans their first taste of freedom, the British attempted to reverse the policy in order to tax the colonists for Britain’s wars. However, this only angered the Americans and led to their

I believe Britain could have kept the colonies in the empire if they didn’t tax so extensively or if they would have taxed less. The people didn’t agree with the sugar act which put tax on sugar, molasses, and wine. It wasn’t the tax or the little bit of money they had to pay that made the colonists upset; it was because it was enforced and imposed on them and they had no say in it. The sugar act also made things difficult for the Americans to trade because the American shippers had to fill out forms that were complicated so their shipments were legalized and approved. The sugar act also led to a lack of justice. The smuggling cases of the colonists could be trailed in a juryless court if the officers wished for it to. If the verdict was guilty,

The French and Indian War set the stage for future events that no one could ever have imagined. The economic practice of mercantilism, which insured profit only to the mother country was the accepted practice between England and her colonies. As long as these economic policies were met, England left much of the day to day governing of the colonies up to the colonies. It was this "salutory neglect" that ultimately led to the ideological differences between England and the colonies. England won the war, but it paid a great price for that victory. England was bankrupted, and as a result had no choice but to look to her colonies to regain financial stability. The pressures of taxation and naval restrictions imposed by the crown and Parliament,

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.