“ it will deprive us of all our invaluable charter rights and privileges, drain us suddenly of our cash, occasion an entire stagnation of trade, discourage every kind of industry, and involve us in the most abject slavery” Such a creed failed to take into account, however, the disposition, power, and opinions of said colonies. As they were used, d

rained, and milked for every last penny their mother country could squeeze out of them, the colonists began to feel, betrayed, isolated, and even scornful toward their previous homeland. Yet the government did nothing decisive to prevent or avert this train chugging down the path to war because they felt it a waste of time, manpower, and money. The largest empire in the world did have more important things to worry about besides a lowly colony’s pathetic crying.

“No Government could function if resistance were legitimate when states were not administered ‘in the best manner possible’ or even when they were ‘very ill managed.’ Such a principle would ‘throw all things into confusion and anarchy.’

“The colonists viewed their opposition as more justified by English tradition then by Parliament’s innovations.” Increased Taxation, along with this newfound strict attitude only served to exacerbate things in the mind of colo

Some topics in this essay:
, Increased Taxation, Americas France, French-Indian War, world power, britain money,