How Did America Change Over Time

Throughout history, Americans view of Britain he changed dramatically. For instance, in the French and Indian War, the Americans went in with little to no friction with Britain. However, over the course of the war, the Americans quickly realized how they were ignored and pushed to the side every time they had tried to help. Also, after the war was finally over, they were overly talked with no representation since Britain was in such a huge amount of debt after the war. Seeing the taxes come out of nowhere made them even more upset and eventually led into the Enlightenment period. Here, Thomas Paine and Jefferson joined heads and worked to get people to realize how important a full break for Britain was. By doing this they were able to create
In order to do this they began taxing all the colonists starting with the Sugar Act. Seeing this fist instance of taxation, many colonists decided to begin boycotting. As time progressed, Britain began enforcing more and more acts to find a way and get the colonists to pay their taxes in order to get out of their debt. However, doing this only further angered the colonists and leads to the Boston massacre after the Townshend Acts were put in place. With these acts basic necessities such as led, glass, paper, tea and paint were taxed creating more friction between the British government and the colonists. Once the tea act had been put in place, the colonists had hit their breaking point. By having this ridiculous tax on tea, the colonists had nothing to drink. At this time, drinking water was practically out of the question, as they did not have clean water supplies yet. With tea, they could boil the bacteria out of the water and be able to enjoy it. By not being able to purchase tea due to this tax, the colonists had had enough with the British government ignoring them and only focusing on gaining their money back. Finally, they went to the Boston Harbor dressed as Natives in order to hide their identities and dumped all the imported tea from Britain over board. Seeing this, Britain just decided to restrain the colonists even more by introducing another act, the Intolerable Acts. These acts were used to restrain the colonists even more and enforce the Quartering act by adding more soldiers in the colonists homes as well as restraining town meetings, getting rid of colonial government, stripping them of their land and forcing them to live in cramped surroundings. The act also calls to apply a new governor to Massachusetts who also is the Commander of British Forces in