Seven Years War

The Seven years’ war in America was the place of many changes giving, most importantly, the leading stick to the British for the claiming of colonies. The 1760s would see the implementation of many policies exercising a pressure on the colonies. Meanwhile, the emergence of frustrations and issues toward the management of the colonies led to the American Revolution. After the Seven years’ war, the colonists were mostly upset and worried about the new policies implemented by the Britain. The Britain planned to keep 10 000 troops in America in order to maintained peace and protect the colonies; however, this initiative bothered the Indians because of violence made by the colonists which led to Cherokee war from 1759 to 1761. Then the Pontiac’s war made Britain to pass the proclamation of 1763 to set a limit to the white settlement and maintained a somewhat stable environment with the Indians. Finally, The British passed the quartering acts which had for purpose to provide supplies and shelters for their troops, but the
Were the colonists demonstrating a sense of social responsibility? Yes, through the policy concerning the taxation and the sovereignty supposed to be applied to the colonist. One word defines the way a lot of colonist understood politics: republicanism. This idea of republicanism conceive that the government must exercise the power, but restrict its power to be too expansive or aggressive in order affect people liberty. For the colonist, paying taxes require the consent to those taxes and if they are taxed, it should be done by their own elected representative, not by the Britain parliament. In other words, being taxed by the parliament was equivalent to surrender some goods belonging to the colonists and it would be obvious that if the taxes are set by British representatives, it would threaten their independence. This questioned their society’s common