Britain’s American Colonies prospered throughout the period spanning from 1607 to 1754 in both their economies and legislations. The colonists had established sustaining local institutions able to govern and regulate trade during this period known to the British Parliament as salutary neglect. With the recent defeat of the French in The French and Indian War, the colonists were prepared to expand westward into their newly acquired lands. However, not long after the Signing of the Treaty of Paris ending the war in 1763, did the British set out to revise their pre-war neglect towards the colonies and reorganize the British Empire in America. Rooted in the defiance of civil liberties, arbitrary taxation, and the end of salutary neglect, the aftermath of the French and Indian War led to philosophical and ideological frictions in Anglo-American relations, that ultimately commanded the Revolutionary War …show more content…
After 1763, England found themselves in a state of dramatic financial decline in part from their debt in support of the colonies in the war. Cutting costs in the colonies was one of the driving factors behind parliament’s decision to end salutary neglect, and enforce pre-war and post war acts. Therefore, in October of the same year, King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763, prohibiting all settlement in the newly acquired lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and began to re-enforce the pre-war Navigation Acts. This, he hoped, would eliminate any costs needed to defend the colonists from the Native American nations to their west, and would put an end to a rise in illegal smuggling in many of the American port cities. Within a year following the Proclamation of 1763, Parliament passed its first attempt to gain financial compensation from