... Everything else that triggered the minds of these revolutionaries was the effect caused by Britains salutary neglect of the American colonies. During the climax growth of the colonies, the first stages in which Great Britain should have been there to guide them through the colonization process ... take control when they no longer needed them. The British tried to show their first show of authority by establishing the Proclamation of 1763. It prohibited settlement in the area beyond the Appalachian mountains, pending further adjustments. This drawn document was not designed to oppress the ...

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... because they didn't have the rights that other citizens of Britain had. Before the American Revolution, the American colonists and the British army fought together in the French and Indian War. British Soldiers were posted throughout the colonies during the war. After The Treaty of Paris of 1763, the American colonists expected the British soldiers to go back to Britain, Prime Minister Greenville determined to ... maintain up to 10,000 British troops in America to control both colonists and Indians. The 'Quartering Act' required the colonies in which the troops were stationed, to ....

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