Tensions immediately start to build in the colonies right after the "7 Years War", or the French and Indian War. Before hand, the American Colonies had just begun to somewhat prosper from comfort of the distant of the monarchical rule of Great Britain when everything ran right into conflict; they had started to improve economically and politically. Indirectly what led to the American Revolution after the French and Indian War (which ignited a 'spark' or 'resistance' in the colonists) was based on this unique American character and the lack of understanding which the British Government or Parliament had for it.

After the French and Indian War, England was heavily in debt. This was the most that they had ever been in debt in their history. Two years before

Anger at the colonies allowed Townshend to introduce his bill to Parliament. In this bill he proposed that the troops be moved from the frontier to the troublesome Atlantic coast. He also proposed that taxes be placed on tea, glass, lead, paint and paper. Judges would be allowed to issue "writs of assistance" which permitted customs officials to search private homes, shops and warehouses without warning to control smuggling. The reaction to the taxes was cautious and slow to form.

The Currency Act of 1764 was also a huge controversy among the colonies that extended the active, previously applied Currency Act of 1751 to all of the rest of the colonies, prohibiting them to print out their own legal tender paper money (for bargains, contracts, debts, dues, demands, etc.). The men in the colonies with well-managed currencies were outraged and colonists everywhere were convinced that the act was a major source of the hard times that followed the French and Indian War that would contribute to the increase of the length of time that would be needed for the colonists to be relieved from debt.

Even the small duty on tea, caused the colonists to lower their consumption of the product, the Tea Act of 1773 basically gave a monopoly on importing of tea to the East India Company to help this company out from its verge on becoming bankrupt. The company tried to sell cheap tax-free tea in America. On Thursday December 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place. This act of aggression took place when the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and went onboard three English vessels and threw all their tea overboard in an act of protest.

Even though the majority of laws which the crown had passed had never really been enforced, Great Britain tried to hit them hard with new restrictions, taxes and duties, laws (such as the writs of assistance), and acts that were like a "slap in the face." Acts that interfered with colonial prosperity include things such as the Currency Act, Sugar and Stamp Acts, Declaratory Act, Townshend Duty Act, and the Intolerable Acts led Americans to first react with confusion, then shock, and eventually anger like that of resistant children. But sometimes the lack of enforcement of these acts put no strain on the relationship between the colonists and England. The colonists basically traded with other nations by working around the rules by bribing their way out of the restrictions of the acts. But they were considered Britain to be a threat to their natural "well-being." This statement could be concluded from and supported by examples like that of the "Stamp Act Congress" and the First Continental Congress.

In order to punish Boston for this act of resistance, the next

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