Analyze The Causes Of Colonial Resistance

Colonial resistance intensified in a matter of years against Britain, only adding to the Navigation Acts from the 17th century. This Revolutionary era emerged from England’s debt from the French and Indian war, and their political administration of the colonies. The factors that led to intense colonial rebellions.
Britain made rational attempts to pay their debts by using the colonies as a cash cow. Amongst the Peace of Paris treaty, by which Britain confiscated most of France’s territory, expanding their territorial claims, they soon found themselves administering the colonies. Aside from this were the Indians who found themselves being isolated away from the Ohio Valley by Europeans for helping France. The French and Indian war enlarged England’s debt,
New problems emerged in 1763, when the prime minister of England, George Grenville, increased England authority over the colonies by implementing new acts such as the Mutiny Act, the colonist hospitalized the army for free, and as a result they objected to the act, and not so much for the money as to being forced to. The colonist were mandated to supply the troops and housed them, without being paid a penny. Colonist were seeing the increase of British authority - enacted by the prime minister, George Greenville- even more when troops were being stationed, and restricted of manufacturing within the colonies so that it wouldn’t compete with the English. The Sugar act of 1764 established jury’s from abroad and taxed sugar, another defiance towards England. The Act colonies resented was The Currency Act of 1764, which stopped the issuing of paper money. This only added to the grievances the colonist felt. Indians too fought back against Europeans as they moved west over into their lands, fearing they would threaten western trade. Even after Britain restricted any more concession of land in the Ohio Valley, through the