During 1700-1774, various kinds of influential events took place in England's North American Colonies that affected other countries and colonies in different degrees. One of the most important aspect are economical changes that made significant impacts through out the "global community" during this turbulent period.
The dramatic growth of slave populations in southern colonies during 1700-1770 let slaves' masters, merchants, and the British monarchs extremely benefited from them, because they produced around 90 percents of the total British North American Colonies' productions. Rice exportation increased dramatically from 500,000 in 1700 to 8,000,000 in 1770, which were nearly all produced by slaves. Because of the Navigation Acts that …show more content…
The Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act in 1765 raised the revenue on trading for regulation and paying off war debt from the French and Indian War. Americans wide spread resistance to these two Acts made British politicians and merchants fear that trading would disrupt, which led them to persuade the Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act. After the Stamp Act repealed in March of 1766, the establishment of the Townshend Duties in 1767 by Charles Townshend(chief financial minister) again informed taxes for importers on various kinds of things like tea, paper, painter's colors and so on into colonies. This Act led to Americans' boycott of all British-made goods from 1767 to 1769 started from Boston town meeting. The boycott meant that Americans need to make sacrifices on importing goods in order to let British merchants persuade that Parliament to repeal this Act. This event increased local manufactures successfully decreased the imports from Britain by 40 percents. Changes in economy including trading and taxation caused serious impacts on the "global community", which led to intensive conflicts, wars and revolutions such as Boston massacre, the Coercive Acts and Declaration of
The dramatic growth of slave populations in southern colonies during 1700-1770 let slaves' masters, merchants, and the British monarchs extremely benefited from them, because they produced around 90 percents of the total British North American Colonies' productions. Rice exportation increased dramatically from 500,000 in 1700 to 8,000,000 in 1770, which were nearly all produced by slaves. Because of the Navigation Acts that …show more content…
The Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act in 1765 raised the revenue on trading for regulation and paying off war debt from the French and Indian War. Americans wide spread resistance to these two Acts made British politicians and merchants fear that trading would disrupt, which led them to persuade the Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act. After the Stamp Act repealed in March of 1766, the establishment of the Townshend Duties in 1767 by Charles Townshend(chief financial minister) again informed taxes for importers on various kinds of things like tea, paper, painter's colors and so on into colonies. This Act led to Americans' boycott of all British-made goods from 1767 to 1769 started from Boston town meeting. The boycott meant that Americans need to make sacrifices on importing goods in order to let British merchants persuade that Parliament to repeal this Act. This event increased local manufactures successfully decreased the imports from Britain by 40 percents. Changes in economy including trading and taxation caused serious impacts on the "global community", which led to intensive conflicts, wars and revolutions such as Boston massacre, the Coercive Acts and Declaration of