French+and+Indian+War+AB

In 1760 the French and Indian war occured. It was a fight between the French and British in the Ohio River Valley. During this war many of the Indians sided with the French and that is why it is named the French and Indian war. __The French and Indian war, otherwise known as the seven years war put an end to salutory neglect and the Parliment put some more laws on the colonists to get them out of debt from the war.__

The British is getting angry with the Colonists because the Colonists sort of started the whole conflict and they had to bribe them to join in on the war. The colonists did not like that King George III had a law on the French and Spanish and felt that it should apply to all of the English. This led to smuggling in the colonies. This was going against the crown and the efforts that the British put forward in the war. They answered to this with the Writs of Assistance. The Writs of Assistance allowed the British soldiers to search storagehouses and ships with no reasonable suspicion. If they ofund out that the colonist were smuggling goods they owuld be taken to an admiralty court where the admiral decides the guilt of innocence of the suspect. In this court these people were found guilty until proven innocent. The colonists disliked the command of the military and they felt that their needs and wants of privacy were being ignored.

There was a huge debt from the war on the British so they had to think of how to get out of debt. They first thought they would go to the tax payers, but that was already too much for them because the tax rates went from twelve to sixteen percent from the war. The colonists were not paying for the war and the british thought they could have them pay. Because the colonists did not pay for the war the Parliment passed five acts or laws. The Sugar Act in 1764 was for the colonists to buy sugar, but they could only buy it form England. THe Currency Act of 1764, this was supposed to put all of England in the same currency. The Quartering Act of 1765 was that the soldiers were taken care of for hwever long they want by the colonists. And finally the Stamp Act of 1765, this was very clear that everything that was to be shipped of mailed needed to have a stamp or it would be voided. All of these laws faced resistance from the colonists and cost the British more money than before. None of these acts were successful and ended in about a year or less.