Britain in Great Debt

After George Washington and the Virginians started the French and Indian war, they were losing and needed the help of the British who came to their aid. This war turned out to be very expensive and put Britain in great debt, with the existence of the debt Britain expected the colonies to pay it off which was very acceptable when you look at the facts but this offended the colonist greatly.

The ungrateful colonist would have never become more than a dream if it were not for Britain's help. The colonies were established strictly for profit, they were established with the understanding they're still under british control and are not independent, mercantilism at its finest. The colonists had gotten use to the freedom presented by salutary neglect started under William and Mary's reign during the glorious revolution and english civil war. After the french and Indian war britain was in debt due to helping their colonies and couldn't be expected to just lose all their money because of the colonies mistakes and not try to atleast break even. To make some of their lost money back through the colonists taxes, Britain established the navigation acts including the quartering act, the stamp act, and the townshed act.

The colonist saw britain's navigation acts as a way for britain to take the money earned by the colonists and the colonists felt they were being taken advantage of. The navigation acts was a merchertism act and was originally passed by parliament in 1650. But the colonist didn’t take into consideration that they were being taxed because they had to take some responsibility for the war they started. The colonist also did not believe that english citizens also paid taxes to help pay for the colonists mistakes. This was the most fair and just way that parliament could find to pay off the debt cause by the war.

The colonists also did not accept the fact that it would be completely unfeasible to be individually represented in parliament. How would their representatives ever be able to get back and forth between the new world and europe to hear the