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__**Colonists point of view**__ The colonists were anger increased gradually in response to British actions that they found were infringing their rights - First the British issue the Proclamation of 1763 after the French and Indian War. The proclamation outlawed the purchase of land from the Indian, unless the land was licensed by the British. The proclamation established a western boundary for colonial settlement, along the Appalachian Mountains. To the west the lands were reserved for the Indians. The colonists were angry because they saw the government as trying to interfere with economical growth and impede their westward expansion.

-Britain then imposed several tax acts like the sugar and tea acts that they [the colonists] were not willing to pay. They felt they should control taxes instead of the British Crown because They had been running their colonies by themselves for long. They felt angry because they were not treated as English Citizens, they were being treated like slaves in their point of view. The Colonials had gotten an increased sense of nationalism since the French and Indian war where they felt as equals with the British after the victory.

-The next British acts that further enraged the colonials was the quartering act passed on 1675, The Quartering Act which directed that local authorities had to provide lodging for British Soldiers in private homes if necessary. and the Massachussetts Government Act which made government officials appointive rather than elective and banned town meetings.  -Britain had not had enough with taxing the colonists and in an effort to continue to raise enough money to pay the debt caused by the French and Indian War they issued the Stamp Act. The stamp tax was a tax that was imposed on every document in the colonies. This act was seen as illegal and there were many riots of enraged colonists across all of the colonies after word spread of the Stamp Act. Massachusetts started the circular letter in response to British actions asking all of the colonies to send representatives to a meeting in New York to fight against the Stamp Act. With so much opposition to the Stamp Act Britain was left with no choice but to repeal it.

- Britain then passed the Townshend Acts in 1767, This Acts included taxes on lead, paint, paper, glass and tea imported by colonists. The Acts also insured that colonial officials, including governors and judges, would receive their salaries directly from the Crown. The colonists who got angered again after this acts decided to boycott all British goods. In Boston there was an increased amount of violence from the colonists against the British troops and Britain sent more troops to Boston to control the colonists. According to the colonists the British just came to shoot the colonials without mercy and without provocation. - Just after repealing the Stamp Act Parliament decided to pass the Tea Act. This Act gave a Monopoly over Tea to the East India Tea Company. The colonists saw this as an attempt to push the colonists out of the market. Angered by this situation they decided to act, Bostonians known as the Boston Tea Party disguised as Indians went to the ships that carried the tea and threw it to the ocean before it was unloaded. British point of view Britain taxed the colonies to raise money for the debt they had after the French and Indian war, the Colonists had to pay because the British defended them from the Indians and French.

If Britain let Americans do what they want the other colonies of the empire would be encouraged to do the same The British saw the Boston tea party as a defiance of british authority The British to assert their authority passed the Coercive acts, called by Americans the intolerable acts

America arming was not seen by britain as an act of loyalty they see it as a betrayal, the crown should not negotiate with the continental congress, Britain does not see congress as a legitimate government.



Justifying the War

Understanding the New Republic