The Proclamation of 1763 was the first to anger the colonist. In order to assure the Indians that settlers would not invade tribal lands, Britain emphasized colonist not to expand to the westward region. Shortly after, the use of writs of assistance, which allowed customs to search anywhere without the used of a warrant, placed a major infringement upon colonial natural rights. The Sugar Act (established at the same time) was an attempt to discourage smuggling by lowering the price of molasses below smugglers cost. It also stated that exports could only go through British ports before being sold to foreign countries.
Some of which include the Sugar Act of 1764, Stamp Act of 1765, Quartering Act of 1765 and the Intolerable Act of 1774. The Intolerable Act put taxes on imported goods, this causing the greatest decline on British imports. The Colonists began to boycott goods and stand up for their rights. In a letter written by George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, Washington states that asking Britain to reduce taxes was wrong. Washington says that it would be asking for a favor to reduce taxes and than not claiming a right.
The british, in response to the smuggling, set up a court without a jury present and the presumption was that the colonists were guilty. This caused widespread protest throughout the colonies. The following year the Currency Act of 1764 was enacted by the British Parliament, which extended the currency act of 1751 restricting the printing of paper money by the colonies of New England. The Act limited
After the failure of the Stamps Act, Parliament tried taxing other British imports such as sugar, in the Sugar Act, and tea, leading to the Boston Tea Party. In addition to the new taxes Britain was prohibiting new settlements in the west due to the possibilities of conflicts after the war (The Coming Independence,
Leading up to the American Revolution in 1775 there were several events and turning points in the late 1760s that the colonists executed which marked a change from simple protesting the British parliament to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War leading to American independence. The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16th, 1773. It is often considered a key turning point towards the start of the American Revolution. According to document A, a group of male colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded tea ships in the Boston Harbor and dumped massive tea chests into the water. The point of this was to show Britain that the colonists will not continue to follow the British Parliament and be forced to but Britain’s goods.
1626- Charles made the leaders of the opposition (e.g. Sir Edward Coke and Sir Thomas Wentworth) sheriffs, so that they couldn’t be elected MPs. He requested another subsidy, which was refused. The Commons prepared articles of impeachment against Buckingham and Charles reacted by dissolving Parliament. 1628- Charles released the loan prisoners before his third Parliament met.
Revolutionary Americans resented the economic restrictions, finding them exploitative. They claimed the policy restricted colonial trade and industry and raised the cost of many consumer goods. In his 1774 pamphlet, "A Summary View of the Rights of British America, " Thomas Jefferson asserted the Navigation Acts had infringed upon the colonists' freedom in preventing the "exercise of free trade with all parts of the world, possessed by the American colonists, as of natural right." Yet, as O. M. Dickerson points out, it is difficult to find opposition to the mercantile system among the colonists when the measures were purely regulatory and did not levy a tax on them. The British mercantile system did after all allow for colonial monopoly over certain markets such as tobacco, and not only encouraged, but with its 1660 regulation was instrumental in, the development of colonial shipbuilding.
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The reasons why the colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence are innumerable. Before the Declaration of Independence, cutting off their trade with all parts of the world except Britain was accepted and so was the imposing of taxes on them without their consent. Transporting them beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses and depriving them in many cases was also an action done before the Declaration of Independence. Not to mention, quartering a large body of troops among the colonist. In effect, the above reasons led colonists to write the Declaration of Independence.
A major event occurring in foreign policy was that of Jay’s Treaty. This landmark was a disaster in American eyes that did practically nothing at all for improvement. Chief Justice John Jay was sent to England to discuss the issue of seizures of American vessels and the impressment of American sailors. Coming to the table with a weak hand as it was, Hamilton even informed England as to Jay’s plans as to have the upper hand in the negotiations. All the treaty established was that the British were to remove their troops and strongholds on northern American territory, already had been stated at the convention of Paris ending the War for Independence; the Treaty gave that the English would redeem the American for any losses but did not mention whether they would seize to do so in the future and no declaration of the impressments at all; also it allowed for the right of England’s ability to place tariffs on American exports while giving them a more favorable import status in the Unites states.