American colonists were able to govern themselves before the French and Indian War. After that war, the British government tried to reaffirm itself and have more political and financial control over the colonies. The colonists took political action in order to get the government to let them be more independent. When those efforts failed, they decided that they needed to be completely liberated from Great Britain. The American colonists were justified in declaring their independence from Great Britain due to the implementation of the Proclamation of 1763, the British taxing the colonists without representation and the enforcement of the Intolerable Acts.
The British government decided not to grant access to the colonists past the Appalachian …show more content…
The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quebec Act and Quartering Acts were set forth in order to punish the town of Boston, all colonies viewed these acts as unconstitutional. In his 1776 “Virginia Declaration of Rights,” George Mason wrote, “That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.” The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until the Boston residents reimbursed Great Britain for the price of tea that was dumped during the Boston Tea Party. The closing of Boston’s port would jeopardize their colony’s economic system since a lot of trading was done at the port. The Massachusetts Government Act stated that all officers of the law had to be appointed by the royal governor and all town meetings were to be banned if approval from the royal governor wasn’t given. This act’s purpose was to suppress all revolutionary activities. The Administration of Justice Act, granted the royal governor the power to move trials to other colonies or England if he suspected a case was not going to be tried fairly. The Quebec Act a law that recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec, which was also the land granted to France by Great Britain, the same land that
The British government decided not to grant access to the colonists past the Appalachian …show more content…
The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quebec Act and Quartering Acts were set forth in order to punish the town of Boston, all colonies viewed these acts as unconstitutional. In his 1776 “Virginia Declaration of Rights,” George Mason wrote, “That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.” The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until the Boston residents reimbursed Great Britain for the price of tea that was dumped during the Boston Tea Party. The closing of Boston’s port would jeopardize their colony’s economic system since a lot of trading was done at the port. The Massachusetts Government Act stated that all officers of the law had to be appointed by the royal governor and all town meetings were to be banned if approval from the royal governor wasn’t given. This act’s purpose was to suppress all revolutionary activities. The Administration of Justice Act, granted the royal governor the power to move trials to other colonies or England if he suspected a case was not going to be tried fairly. The Quebec Act a law that recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec, which was also the land granted to France by Great Britain, the same land that