The British Empire In 1763

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The British Empire was the strongest and most successful empire in 1763.The American Revolution came as a result of an argument about the constitution between the British colonists and the Americans. In 1763, ministers from Britain tried to spread costs of imperialism to the Americans. The British ministers made efforts to start administering their empire after the war of 1756 to 1763. During this period, they had accumulated large debts with France. The only solution at hand was to seek ways of generating revenue. The revenue Act, also known as the sugar Act, and the stamp Acts, were passed in parliament in 1764 and 1765 respectively. The Americans insisted that the British had no right of taxing them because they had no representatives in …show more content…

The first discussion on the constitution between Americans and the British was held in as the war came to an end in 1763. A number of issues in the administrative policies were discussed. One of the issues was the inefficient and corrupt customs service headed by the British in America, the currency Act. Set up in 1764 which, did not allow colonies to give out paper money, the stamp act set up in 1765, which ordered all legal documents be issued with stamps and in which the bearers were supposed to pay for them, the invention of the Halifax Nova Scotia court where officials from the customs service could appeal their cases from the courts of the local colonies and many more Acts of parliament. These legislations were too demanding to the Americans and they had to strongly oppose them because they infringed people’s property rights and democracy. However the front liners of the American Revolution were careful not to break their relationship with the British because these conflicts were not about the American economic values, but it was about people’s democratic rights. They only resorted into conflict as the last

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