Comparing The Disagreement Between The Colonists And Great Britain

The period from 1763 to 1776 was a period of substantial change between the Colonies and Great Britain. The British and the Colonists had just finished fighting the 7 years’ war together against the French and Indians. The American Colonists and British fought and won side by side and a war which should have brought the Colonists and the British together instead drove them further apart. The resulting debt from the long and expensive war is what prompted Great Britain’s continuous attempts to tax the Colonies without the Colonists’ participation or approval. Taxation without representation was the theme in nearly every major disagreement. According to Brinkley (2011) there were several major areas of disagreement between the American Colonists and the British. Great Britain had taken on huge amounts of debt from the 7 years’ war. There were several different thoughts on how to recuperate this money but in the end King George III relied on his newly appointed prime minister George Grenville to devise a …show more content…
This time it was the straw that broke the camels back and ultimately led to the American Revolution. The Tea Act was the last attempt by the British to control the Colonies and tax them without their permission. This Tea Act also created a monopoly of the Tea trade by the British. The colonist revolted in Boston in what was called the Boston tea party. They destroyed ships and merchandise and refused to pay for the damages. This act of defiance spread throughout the colonies and several other towns participated in similar acts of defiance. The Colonies had finally had enough of the remote British rule and taxation without representation. Now, it didn’t matter how much or how little Great Britain decided to tax the Colonies as anything short of leaving them alone would result in active