Why Americans Began To Resist Britain?

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liberty was secure. Everywhere in 1760 the colonists enthusiastically celebrated the ascent of the new king to the throne.
Imperial officials in London, though always uneasy about the assertiveness of the colonial legislatures, had no concerted plan for reform at the end of the French and Indian War in 1763. The events that led to revolution in 1776 did not grow out of a British resolve to bring the loosely governed empire under control at last. That came to be a secondary goal of policy, but initially Parliament naively stumbled into the American controversy in pursuit of other ends. They were looking in another direction entirely when in 1765 the colonies exploded in rage at parliamentary taxation.
The Crown's ministers were simply seeking a way to finance the king's military policy. During the French and Indian War the British government had taken financial responsibility for the defense of the colonies as well as provided military leadership and many of the troops. Rather than demobilizing at the end...