If there was ever an option in choices in life that would affect you and your surroundings would you take it? If you had a chance to have a say in something would you? Today you’re aloud to make this alternative, but back in 1760’s people had no options or say in anything that happened. In 1763 after the French and Indian War the British had conflicts with the colonists this grew into many tensions. Tensions grew because the British were being unfair to the colonists and gave them no say or rights.
In 1763 the British reinforced a law that gave colonists less options. The British issued the Proclamation in 1763 which forbids all settlement west of the Appalachians. This ban became a Proclamation line which the colonists were not to cross. The colonists were very angry at the British. They saw that the Proclamation sought to stop expansions this convinced the colonists that the British government did not care about their needs.
A second result of the French and Indian War was Britain’s financial crisis. After the war the British government got 10,000 troops to control the Native Americans. This army was supposed to protect the colonies, but the colonists viewed it as a standing army that might turn against them. Maintaining the troops in North America was another expense that stressed the British. The British borrowed so much money during the war that it nearly doubled its national debt. These debts were too large for the English to pay so they thought that they could get all the money out of the colonies. Of course the Americans didn't like this and this is the reason that they declared their independence. The British started many different acts and duties like the Stamp Act which put taxes on almost everything. Taxation played a big role in colonist’s lives. Colonists did not understand why they had to pay extra for everything. They had no say in it, and even if they did protest against tax’s the British wouldn’t listen to them. Colonists were making little...