Turning Point in American History the 1763

Turning Point in American History

The 1763 proclamation was created by the British Government for the purposes of prevention of the escalation of the fighting by settlers and Indians, which would have threatened western trade. The proclamation forbade settlers from advancing beyond the boundary line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The British government was forced to make such a policy because settlers and traders from English colonies were moving into the upper Ohio valley after the French departed, unsettling Indians leading to objections and the breakup of alliances like that made with the Ottawa Chieftain Pontiac. The policy was imposed by making Indian tribes cede land to white settlers, which was within the boundaries of white settlers, with the hope of preventing the colonists from advancing further. However, this move did not work as expected, since the colonist forced their way inland westward to control the fur trade and land speculation.

Furthermore, the British government used control methods like the increase of authority in the colonies, by adding troops to control land and water ways with the hope of preventing smuggling. In addition to this, the government restricted colonial manufacturing and reinforced and increased its custom services, with royal officials taking up offices rather than using colonial substitutes. Further the government used Acts like the 1764 Sugar Act, 1764 Currency Act, and 1765 Stamp Act.

The colonist resisted this new stringent, Greenvile Program on which conflicts arose as they set up societies like the Atlantic Coast and Back County societies to air their grievances. The rising tension led to civil struggles as seen in the small civil war in North Carolina in 1771, by farmers resisting the high taxes. Regulators tried to redress the grievances of the colonists to the colonial assembly to no avail, leading to the colonists to take up arms to revolt. In the process, the colonist's resistance led to the notion that self-government would be a means of protection leading to the desire for home rule as was the belief of the group, Liberties Americans.

The colonists' revolt was heightened by civil unrest as people took the law into their hands, and riots broke out in many colonial cities. They stopped buying English goods in opposition to the Acts while the group Sons of Liberty terrorized stamp agents. The repulsion by colonists to the Stamp Act led to the Declaratory Act in 1766, which asserted the authority of the parliament on the colonies. The Sons of Liberty were the beginning of the revolution, that saw the need of keeping the revolution spirit alive by colonists through talk and writings, which they circulated in the form of books, pamphlets and leaflets. This led to the first organized colonial meeting in September 1774, at First Continental Congress. This marked the beginning of an organized revolution not only as a response to the policies but for independence from British rule and control, to self-government.