How Did British Imperial Policies Affect The Colonists

The British government has always been a suppressing force over the colonists. The colonists have endured many different difficulties and impediments that the British has imposed onto them. Many of which, has affected the colonists greatly causing them to lash out at the unsatisfactory British imperial policies. The colonists over the course of history, has suffered through many unfair policies that at one point, they just couldn’t take it anymore. One of the many policies that the British implemented was the Proclamation of 1763. This prohibited settlers to further migrate past the Appalachian Mountains. The cause of this proclamation to be made was because in the beginning, since the French was defeated, the frontiersmen originating
The Sugar Act of 1764 in combination with The Stamp Act of 1765 along with the “Townshend Duties” caused a dramatic uproar of anger on the colonist’s part. They found the taxes to be excessive and this hurt them financially. Although the Sugar Act was impacting, it only fell upon a selected few of New England merchants. The ‘’Townshend Duties’’ was also pretty impacting because the taxes were applied to various goods such as tea, lead, paper and paint .But only the people that bought these certain goods did it affect. The Stamp Act on the other hand fell on everyone since it applied to every printed document that exists in the colonies. This created a significant amount of revenue towards the British officials. As more taxes piled on to the colonists, the more irritated they became and colonial leaders such as Patrick Henry decided to speak out. He believed that the colonists deserved to have some type of representation such as in the form of representatives, in order to be taxed in the first place. He claimed this to be a right, and in addition, he presented a set of resolutions. Other colonial leaders such as James Otis, was against the idea of the new tax implemented and so he decided (along with the other members of the colonial assembly) to call an intercontinental congress to rebel against this policy. Mobs and riots lashed out in several colonial cities in the summer of 1765. As a result the Stamp Act was repealed. In 1764, The Currency Act was also another policy that irritated the colonists. The abolishment of paper money affected the farmers greatly because it has been the source of the majority of their loans. The Americans believed that colonies had the right to control the costs of the government within the colonies and that the British shouldn’t. They believed