What were the ties between Britain and the colonies between 1762 and the Boston Tea Party?
Following the 7-years war from 1754 and 1763, Americans began to reexamine their ties with Britain. Britain lost large amounts of money in the way, and as Britain saw the American colonies as a way to gain revenue for the mother country, they employed the policies of mercantilism in the colonies. Specifically, the colonies produced raw materials and sold the majority of them to Britain, where they were manufactured, and bought back the manufactured goods at inflated prices, thus earning a large margin for Britain. (Of course, this caused tension between the two continents.) Prior to the Boston Tea Party, most colonies were ruled locally by colonial assemblies (which were made up of representatives voted in by white property-holding men). However, following the Sugar Act, which infuriated colonists and gave rise to more widespread republican ideas like “no taxation without representation”, the British government began to crack down and dissolve upstart assemblies like the New York assem
