The Proclamation Of 1763

1. The Proclamation of 1763 portrayed an example of a British action that brought forth change to the majority colonial viewpoint leading to the Revolutionary War (121). See, after the warlike situation between Britain and Pontiac’s tribe, the London government decided it was a good idea to create an act that basically gave the Native Indians some space – no American colonists were to go past the Appalachians (121). As you could imagine, this did not settle well with the colonists: why did they have to obey some British law? Consequently, a form of rebellion resulted as the colonists poured themselves onto the trail leading to where they were restricted from going (121).
2. A second example of a British action that sparked the Revolutionary

War was when Prime Minister George Grenville passed both the Quartering Act and Stamp Act in 1765 (125). These taxations forced unwilling colonists to pay and contribute to what they believed was their right – protection by the British army (125-6). However, to be fair, this was NOT an inexpensive job: succeeding the Seven Years’ War, Britain retained a debt around “£140 million, about half of which had been incurred defending the American colonies” (125). Nevertheless, the American colonists vehemently and stubbornly opposed these acts, one reason being that they thought the so-called protection was actually just a secretive way for the British to keep tabs on them (126). The fact that they also didn’t approve of how their taxes were being spent towards a court system they disagreed with, and that they were being taxed by Parliament at all, only added on to their equation whose outcome would be full on rebellion in the Revolutionary War (126).
3. Supposing the British had addressed the Boston Tea Party and its outcome differently, the doomed rebellion could have possibly not occurred (132). It appears that the mother country was like a helicopter mom that was too quick to enforce strict rules or reprimand after a wrongdoing – the Boston Port Act, which basically shut down Boston until they cleaned up their mess, was a great example of this (132). Perhaps if Britain was willing to let go a little, give some independence to their colonists, and not repeatedly spring up multiple acts on them, then the outcome could’ve resulted very differently… and not in war. As page 132 said, “the granting of some measure of home rule to the Americans might at this stage still have prevented rebellion, but few British politicians were willing to swallow their pride and take the high road.”