Compare And Contrast The Relationship Between The Colonists And The American Colonies

The American colonists and the British government got along when convenient but generally they didn’t always see eye to eye. From the beginning, the British had their set of rules and regulations, they knew the stretch of their monarchal power, the limits that power had, and the rights their citizens had, including their citizens across the ocean as seen established after the English civil war. But the mother child relationship between the island and the colonies wasn’t the one that properly fit with this power dynamic. Ideally these were supposed to be equals and therefore treated equally as they were told that they would be in their early charts, but the Brits saw their American counterparts as somehow beneath them even though they were bigger and in better shape. So the American colonies grew, silently but steadily until they were booming with people and exports.
Initially both groups of British citizens were united by the common goal; expand the empire and fight and subdue enemies of the crown. But slowly British intentions for the colonies became apparent, they were just an ends for British means and they were looking out for what was best for them as a mother country not for their empire as a whole. This slowly became clear

After fighting alongside, each other during the French Indian war, the Americans were sure of their impending equal treatment but their conditions worsened. With the French threat leaving them with no reason to put up with British abuse and the lack of investment parliament had in them, the two countries grew apart until they felt they had gotten ignored and oppressed enough to revolt, thus leading to the Olive branch petition as a last ditch effort to be treated right and eventually the Declaration of Independence and the American