Despite the growing tension between Britain and its colonies, they still maintained strong bonds. The colonists needed the British to defend them from their enemies. The British paid for the overseas navy used in defending them. The Colonists and the British both spoke English, tying the two together greatly. Both the Colonists and the British profited from trading goods across the Atlantic Ocean In addition, wealthy land owners in the colonies sent their children to Oxford University in England. Surely, the colonists were not "chomping at the bit" to break away from British rule.

The first major change in attitude was after the French and Indian War that ended in 1763. This war strained the relationship between Britain and the colonies. Unwelcome British troops had remained in the colonies. The colonists were forced by the Quartering acts to house and feed the lingering British troops. They each walked away from the war with ideas about the other. The British viewed the

A year later, in 1764, Britain passes the Sugar Act which placed tariffs on some colonial imports as a means of raising revenue. While many colonists grumbled about this new tax, the colony of New York called this act a violation of the rights of overseas English subjects who were unrepresented in Parliament. The colonists believed they had already paid with the death of their own family members in the French and Indian War. The British saw the taxes as a way of getting the colonists to pay for their own defense.

With the removal of the Stamp Act came the passing of the Declaratory Act in 1766. This act gave the British government total power to pass laws to govern the colonies. The British claimed that the colonies had always been and should always be subject to the British crown. This again enraged the colonial assemblies who thought the British government had taken over their rights as a ruling authority over the colonies.

Unable to fund any more frontier wars between land hungry colonists and Indians, the British imposed a Proclamation Line, prohibiting the colonists to take land away from the Indians. The British decide to tax the colonists to enforce this new line. Colonists, already in a financial recession, were infuriated by this new act. They couldn't see why they needed to fund something they didn't even want in the first place.

In 1767, the King passed through Parliament an appointing of customs housing officials in the colonies. Along with this change in rule came the Townshend duties. These duties taxed the colonies internally which the colonists again protested. The Bostonians attacked the customs officials appointed by the British Parliament as a way of objecting. In retaliation, the British sent in troops in 1768. After the troops occupied Boston, the colonists, along with merchants, began to boycott against imported British goods

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