Parliament of Great Britain

The French and Indian War was a main contributing factor to the American Revolution, its aftermath altered the British-American relations tremendously. After the war, Great Britain was able to “intervene” in the colonies by restricting expansion with imposing acts, levying taxes unfairly along with colonial resistance, all shaped up the British-American relationship from 1754-1776. The Proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This restricting…

British had implemented harsh laws on the colonists. For instance, the Stamp Act of 1765 stirred up tensions between the colonists and Great Britain tremendously. It was the first internal tax tolled directly on American colonists by the British government. There was no consent given by the American colonies, and all funds would go directly to the government of Great Britain. The act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was in debt from the…

However, the British parliament and King made a series of decisions that changed the minds of the colonists. The placement of the Stamp Act in 1765 angered the colonist because Britain was taxing them and abusing their power just to make Great Britain revenue, the Proclamation Line of 1763 angered colonists because it meant that the colonists could not move West, and the enforcement of mercantilism angered the colonists because the colonies existed to enrich and benefit Great Britain, which…

The Seven Years’ War, Britain was left with an enormous debt and decided to help alleviate that expense through the taxation of the colonies in North America. Two acts of parliament, the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765 began the dispute between Britain and America. Based on the current standard of “no taxation without representation”, the colonies disputed the impositions from parliament since they were not being represented in the British House of Commons. Parliament defended their…

The road to the Revolutionary war was a tiring, uphill battle for the Colonists and the British. The relationship between Great Britain and the American Colonists were never a cordial, or a generous one. In the eyes of the Colonists, King George III was a tyrannic thief, who used the Colonies to syphon their money through taxes in order to increase his own wealth. Meanwhile, the British viewed the Colonists as rebellious, uncooperative residents of a failing society. Between 1763 and 1776…

The American colonist weren’t wrong in waging war and breaking away from their mother country Britain. The conflicts that occurred between the two justified that Britain's intentions and interests were self-centered and were meant to be much more beneficial to the English. Parliament was imposing laws that levied duties not for the regulation of trade, but for the single purpose of raising profits. The colonists no longer wanted to be under Britain's mercantilist system, and in this effort to…

• Seven Years’ War breaks out in Europe from 1756-1763 • Was a global war, fought on five continents, one of the first global war • Prussia and Great Britain fought France and Austria, but Native Americans played a big role throughout the war • Britain had Americans sided with them, but the Natives supported both France & Britain • War took place in continental U.S., the Caribbean Sea, the coast of Africa as well as India • War started due to British colonists wanting to expand into the west…

long time, starting in 1770, Britain had been harassing and harming American colonies. So, the question that begs to be asked is, were the American colonists right in declaring independence and later fighting Britain? The Americans, were indeed justified in declaring independence from Britain because of King George III’s leadership, British cruelty, and lastly, lack of representative in Parliament. The Americans were justified in declaring independence from Britain because of King George…

War (French-Indian War between 1756-1763) left Britain with tremendous debt and the British government decided that the American colonies, who benefited the most from this war, should pay part of the war’s costs. To achieve this goal, the British Parliament passed a series of acts designed to pay the debt with colonial assistance. The American colonists were not happy with such tight control. The first act passed by the British Parliament on April 5, 1764 was The Sugar Act, also…

Over the years, the British Parliament has been containing American colonists’ lifestyle. The colonies had less authority and freedom. The conflicts between the two countries were enlarging due to an numerous amount of disagreements. For many years, colonies fought for justice to gain their independence from the British Parliament. In addition, causes leading up to the Revolution, the movement of rebellion and, the new formation of the United Sates’ government led to the reasoning that the…