THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS
1754–1775
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> What were the most significant factors contributing to deteriorating relations between Britain and its North American colonies? Chapter 6 explores the efforts of the British government to tax and control the colonies in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War and traces the escalating colonial responses to these efforts, from political protest, to open resistance, and — ultimately — to war.
Figure false: Resistance to the Stamp Act. This contemporary engraving (ca. 1765) depicts an angry Boston crowd burning a pile of stamps in protest of the Stamp Act. Picture Research Consultants & Archives.