French & Indian War
The British victory in the French and Indian War had a great impact on the British Empire. Firstly, it meant a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World, but the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt.
The war had an equally profound but very different effect on the American colonists. First of all, the colonists had learned to unite against a common foe. Before the war, the thirteen colonies had almost no common ground and they coexisted in distrust. But now they had seen that together they could be a power to be reckoned with. And the next common foe would be Britain.
New British Taxation of American Colonists
The American Revolution was precipitated, in part, by a series of laws passed between 1763 and 1775 that regulating trade and taxes. This legislation caused tensions between colonists and imperial officials, who made it clear that the British Parliament would not address American complaints that the new laws were onerous. British unwillingness to respond to American demands for change allowed colonists to argue that they were part of an increasingly corrupt and autocratic empire in which their traditional liberties were threatened. This position eventually served as the basis for the colonial Declaration of Independence.
Colonial Boycott of British Goods
The boycott of British goods were a series of boycotts for British acts in American colonies which led to the American revolution. It also served as a catalyst for the creation of The Sons of Liberty, an organized group of colonists rebelling against the Stamp Act, in July of 1765.
The American Revolution
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