Saturday, May 22, 2010

How did overwhelming British sucess in the Seven Years War lead to an imperial crisis in British North America

What did an overwhelming British victory have to do with the US colonies rebelling? Why did the British victory cause that? Or did the British victory have something to do with them raising taxing taxes, which made the colonies rebell?

How did overwhelming British sucess in the Seven Years War lead to an imperial crisis in British North America
The British committed a lot of troops and resources to winning the war in America. As a consequence, a high monetary cost was incurred also. Britain just naturally assumed that if they accumulated a debt in the colonies protecting the colonies that the colonies should be responsible for some of that debt through taxes.





So then over a series of years you have the British enacting a tax, then changing it, then repealing it as American colonists got irritated at it. BTW it was only about 1/2 of 1% tax. I'd love to have that tax today!





So the Americans had had enough of taxes when SE Asia had a famine and the East Indes Tea Company had no market for their tea. Many members of Parliament owned stock in the company and had an interest in its success. So they force shipped tea to the Americas where a series of tea parties occuerred, not just in Boston, and then 'cooler heads' did not prevail, tempers flared, and everything spiraled out of control then next thing you know we have armed conflicts.


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