In the year 1763, Britain changed their mercantile policies in colonial America. They had just won a series of wars against the French and gained a vast amount of land in the new world. However, they also had a large debt from these wars. New regulations and taxes were put in place for the colonies to raise revenue from the colonies in order to pay for the debt. Some of these policies were: the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Revenue Act, and the Intolerable Acts. These policies and others created a response from the colonists in America and would eventually lead to the colonist’s rebellion and the Revolutionary War.
The policies prior to 1763, a time known as old colonialism, saw multiple trade policies enacted by the british. The one …show more content…
The Intolerable Acts were a set of policies that were a direct response to the Tea Party. The Tea party was a group that had dumped tens of thousands of dollars worth of tea into Boston Harbor. The Intolerable acts included the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act. The Intolerable Act did the following: closed Boston harbor until the tea was repaid for, gave the British more control in the Massachusetts government, restricted town meetings, and forced civilians to house British soldiers. The colonists obviously objected to these laws but at this point there was not much they could do. They saw this as a plan by the British to starve the colonies and to contain them. These Acts had huge responsibility for the colonist’s rebellion as they took away their freedom. There was nothing positive about these mercantile policies that the British enacted, especially the Intolerable acts. Historian Louis Hacker described the British mercantile system as “prison walls” because he found it impossible for American capitalists to expand economically. It was indeed impossible to expand economically when the British kept putting taxes in place because they needed to raise a few more pounds to pay their
The policies prior to 1763, a time known as old colonialism, saw multiple trade policies enacted by the british. The one …show more content…
The Intolerable Acts were a set of policies that were a direct response to the Tea Party. The Tea party was a group that had dumped tens of thousands of dollars worth of tea into Boston Harbor. The Intolerable acts included the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act. The Intolerable Act did the following: closed Boston harbor until the tea was repaid for, gave the British more control in the Massachusetts government, restricted town meetings, and forced civilians to house British soldiers. The colonists obviously objected to these laws but at this point there was not much they could do. They saw this as a plan by the British to starve the colonies and to contain them. These Acts had huge responsibility for the colonist’s rebellion as they took away their freedom. There was nothing positive about these mercantile policies that the British enacted, especially the Intolerable acts. Historian Louis Hacker described the British mercantile system as “prison walls” because he found it impossible for American capitalists to expand economically. It was indeed impossible to expand economically when the British kept putting taxes in place because they needed to raise a few more pounds to pay their