British Imperial Policies During The French And Indian War To 1776

From the end of the French and Indian War to 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed, the British imperial policies, like the Stamp Acts, Quartering Acts and the Proclamation Line of 1963, angered the colonists enough to start a rebellion. The rebellion started strong in the New England colonies with them smuggling things from other countries, and it ended even stronger with their commitment to their republican values. The Stamp Act and Quartering Acts were some of the first imperial policies to anger the colonists. They were both introduced in 1765 and both were fairly unjust. The Stamp Act had caused a lot of commotion in the colonies because it taxed every piece of paper used. The colonists found this policy an abuse of power. The Quartering act
This line told them they could not, under any circumstances, settle past the Appalachian Mountains. This proclamation came too late, and that is what has angered these colonists. A lot of the Southern colonists had settled past that line because there simply was not enough room for everyone to have plantation land. As this proclamation had been announced as indentured servants were reaching the end of their servitude, which they were promised land, they had to go past that mountain range. Not so long after, the American colonial resistance had grown significantly. All the acts and taxes the British had put on them restricted and imposed on what the colonials thought were their rights. After the Stamp Act these colonists started to resist what the British were making them endure and used the excuse “no taxation without representation.” That means they would not accept taxes without being represented in Parliament. When the British refused to let them be represented, Bostonians had started to resist the most. Eventually, the British had started using taxes and acts on the Bostonians only to try and make an example out of