What problems arsoe from changes in british policy toward the colonies in the 1760s?

Answer 1

In 1763, the Treaty of Paris was signed that ceded "New France" to the British, ending the French and Indian War. New France, comprised of many Native American tribes spanned a geographical reach from Canada, Western New York, Ohio to Illinois. General Jeffery Amherst, in charge of administering British policy in the new region, immediately instituted draconian policies on the new English subjects that led to war along the new frontier and sowed the seeds of the American Revolution.

The French and Indian War was the American experience of the greater Seven Years War between France and England in the European front. Though England won the war, its treasury was severely depleted and as policy, cut back gifts to the Native Americans of gunpowder and blankets which the Indians had come to expect from the French.

The standard policy of the French was to distribute gunpowder to the tribes, down through a chain of command that kept political order. Amherst discontinued the policy because he hated the Indians, did not have authorization from England's King George to do so, and did not have the financial instruments even if he believed the British interest would benefit from continuing the policy.

As the uprisings along the frontier occurred in the next few years, the British found it increasingly costly to administer government and control on the frontier and leaned on the 13 Colonies for higher taxation rates to subsidize the cost of the new Western expansion.