Examples of tighter British control such as the sugar act, stamp act, Boston massacre, the Boston tea party, and the intolerable acts which then led to the decline in imports. Using what I know I can then further explain my statement about tighter British rule.
To begin with, Great Britain began tightening control over the American colonies when the French and Indian war broke out. The war had started on 1756 and ended on the 1763. Additionally, Native American warfare continued after 1763, requiring British troops to actively police the borders of the colonies. This sudden rebellion is known as Pontiac’s Rebellion of 1763, a Native American revolt that unified various tribes who had previously fought with the French, demonstrated the need for additional regulating. As a result Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763, which did not allow colonial settlement past the Appalachian Mountains to prevent skirmishes with The Native Americans.
British victory on the one hand gave Britain more land in North America, but on the other hand gave it more debt to then collect from the colonies by the form of increased taxes. To help pay for the expensive war, Britain began directly taxing the colonies, firstly by enforcing existing taxes which it had not been collecting, such as the Navigation acts and the Molasses Acts, and secondly by implementing new taxes through the Sugar Act in 1764, the Stamp Act in 1765, the Quartering act of 1765, and the Townsend act of 1767, the latter of which taxes essential goods such as paper, glass, and tea.
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Eventually, the colonial response gradually built up towards the American Revolution in 1776. The colonist objected to being taxed without representation in the British Parliament, and after the Stamp Act, many colonist responded to this by forming the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, an official group of representatives from different colonies that would be a precursor to the Continental Congress. Additionally, groups such as the Son of Liberty were formed and led riots and used the threat of violence against British officials to protest taxes from the Stamp act. These ideas would help lead to the abolishment of the Stamp Act in 1766, but the complete end of British taxes as a whole. The more British taxes put on the colonies during the 1770s only deepened the tension between Britain and the Colonies. In 1775 there was an outbreak which then started a war, and finally in 1776 the Colonies declared independence from Great Britain.
To conclude with, the many acts and British taxation Great Britain had placed on the Colonies made tensions high and then finally started a war for independence.
