The Policies and Distractions that Caused the Revolutionary War The messy and disorganized British rule of the American colonies led to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. ... These policies and distractions were some of the causes of the Revolutionary War. ... Unwelcome British troops had remained in the colonies after the war. ... The Tea Act not only put a three penny per pound tax on tea, but it also gave the British East India Company a near monopoly. England allowed the company to sell directly to the colonial agents avoiding any middlemen. ...

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The French and Indian War also known, as the Seven Years War in Europe was a huge conflict between England and France and their Indian allies. ... The first major breaking point was in 1773, when the British passed a Tea Act attempting to help the East India Company from their almost non-existent sales of their teas. With the helping hand of Britain, they let the company sell their tea in North America without the colonial tax and lowered the price so there wouldn't be any competitors. ... The East India Company's prices were so low that the American traders could not compete. ... S...

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We will look at the French and Indian war also known as the 7 year war, and the American involvement in the war to help England beat the French. ... Know during and after the war the deterioration in the relationship between England and America was seen when provincial solider and British Solider could not get along with each other. ... The Tea act was passed by the British parliament to bail out the nearly bankrupt East India Company.# The boycott on British tea was still upheld in the colonies, but to sell the East India Companies surplus of tea the British government dropped the ...

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After winning the war, Britain had a huge debt to pay. ... In 1763, the Seven-Year War in Europe and the French and Indian War in the colonies was over, and with the end came a British debt of over 140 million pounds. ... The trouble began when Britain granted a monopoly to the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonies. This was done to help this ailing company, because if it went under the London government would lose heavily in tax revenue. However, the perception of the colonists was that the British were trying to force them to drink the tea from their company. ...

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The haphazard and disorganized British rule of the American colonies in the decade prior to the outbreak led to the Revolutionary War. ... These policies and distractions were some of the causes of the Revolutionary War. ... Relations began to worsen with the great victory over the French and Indians in the Seven Years War. ... The Tea Act not only put a three penny per pound tax on tea but it also gave the British East India Company a near monopoly because it allowed the company to sell directly to the colonial agents avoiding any middlemen. ... During these years of ineffective rule, the...

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But after the war with Spain ended in 1604, parliament decided that England needed to expand into the new lands. ... This caused the Seven Years War between the British and French. The outcome of this war had a huge impact on the colonies and their relationship with Great Britain. ... The king ended up giving the East India Company a monopoly with tea. ... In the Boston Tea Party, the Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians and raided an East India Company ship that was in the Boston harbor. ...

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In 1702, the twelve-year war broke out. This then started the French and Indian War. This was a war engaged by France and Britain. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. ... This new act granted a monopoly on tea trade to the East India Company. ...

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In 1702, the twelve-year war broke out. This then started the French and Indian War. This was a war engaged by France and Britain. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. ... This new act granted a monopoly on tea trade to the East India Company. ...

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The cost of the wars was great in two ways. ... At this point Revolutionary War began, and it was among the bloodiest in history. ... War broke out and France quickly became an Empire from the leadership of Napoleon. ... However, the wars caused great loss of life and destruction, and France's wealth was continually drained. The revolutionary war incredibly affected the outcome of the Nation. ...

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However it was the larger of many little things that led up to the revolutionary war. ... The Revolutionary War was the event that brought forth the Declaration of Independence. ... This law closed down the Boston port until the East India Company was reimbursed for the tea that was ruined in the Boston Harbor. ... The war had now begun. This was the war to end colonialism, also known as the Revolutionary War. ...

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The year 1763 would mark a significant turning point in the relations between England and its colonies, for it marked the beginning of the French and Indian war. ... Also England was faced with the considerable debt they had amassed during the war. Just when the American colonies were beginning to experience a small amount of freedom and independent operation, the English decided to raise taxation to help finance the cost of the war. During the French and Indian war, The English government had issued writs of assistance to help authorities enforce trade laws in the colonies. ...

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After winning the French and Indian war, Britain felt it had the right to start controlling the colonies. ... After the French and Indian war, the British government was in dept. ... It was not their war for empire, why should they be obliged to pay for Great Britain's war against their own enemy? ... These acts included the closing of the port of Boston, until such time as the East India tea company received compensation for the tea dumped into the harbor. ...

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In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in Europe as the Seven Years War, (1754-1763) and the aftermath. The French and Indian war took place in America. ... Slowly they took control over the war and forced the French out of their colonies up to Quebec were they cornered French soldiers up a rocky embankment. ... After a period of relative calm, on May 10th 1773, Parliament pa...

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The Seven Years War between Great Britain and France and its subsequent acts had a substantial impact on British-American relations once the war was over. ... More turmoil arose from the Seven Years War when England passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act in consecutive years. ... Great Britain was suffering from huge war debts and thus taxed its colonies in an effort to create revenue. ... Brought about by the Tea Act in 1773 that allowed the East Indian Company to bypass American wholesalers (cutting out the wholesaler's profit), a group of colonists boarded a ship laden with tea and thr...

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The revolution began because the results of the French and Indian War stroke Britain economy hard as the national debt doubled because of how expensive the war turned out to be. ... The Tea Act was somewhat of a cooperate bailout for a British company that sold tea that lost its profit and was going to gain it back by being granted a monopoly to tax tea in the colonies. ... ", said everything that could be done to avoid war was already tried, but the war was unavoidable and had already begun. ...

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By doing so, the growing American economy was greatly damaged, especially after the French and Indian War during which thousands of new colonists came due to the abundance of jobs but when the war was over, there were thousands of people poor and hungry (Zinn 60). ... Another such act was the Tea Act, which essentially gave the near bankrupt British East India Company a monopoly in the trade of tea (www.thedeclarationofindependence.com). ...

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Adams (2013) states that he served on 90 committees, as the head of the Board of War and Ordinance, and negotiated the Treaty of Paris. ... During his presidency much of his time was focused on the war between French and British. ... Franklin (2013) states "Franklin amassed real estate and businesses, organized the Union Fire Company to counteract dangerous fire hazards, established a lending library so others could share his passion for reading, and was elected Grand Master of the Pennsylvania Masons, clerk of the state assembly and postmaster of Philadelphia" (para. 8). ...

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Largely, this was due to a shortage of European indentured servants, an end to the Royal African Company's monopoly over the slave trade (competition among slave traders led to a decrease in slave prices), and a realization among the colonists that slaveholding was far more profitable than the employment of indentured servants. ... Similarly, the Indians were seen only as sources of trade, and as useful allies during times of war with other Europeans. ...

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