What are at least 5 complaints the colonists had against the king of Great Britain during the 1760s and the 1770s?

You will
actually find a long list of grievances that many of the American colonists had against the king
in the Declaration of Independence itself. Thomas Jefferson wanted to make it clear that they
had good reasons to rebel against Great Britain. Some of the major grievances are described
below.

One significant grievance had to do with limits put on commerce. For
much of the history of the colonies, the British imposed a policy known as salutary neglect.
This essentially meant that they ignored laws that restricted trade within the colonies as long
as the colonists were not causing any overt trouble. Beginning in the 1760s, however, the
British began enforcing a policy that did not permit colonists to trade directly with markets
outside of the British Empire. Many colonistsnotably John Hancock, who made a fortune through
tradesaw this as putting limits on their rights as free citizens.

Another
grievance had to do with restrictions on where the colonists could settle. The French and Indian
War was fought largely for control of the Ohio River Valley. When the British won the war, many
colonists were eager to claim that land and move west of the Appalachian Mountains. However, the
Royal Proclamation of 1763 forbade the colonists from settling there. Many thought this was a
betrayal by the king, given the role that the colonists played in winning the war.

Even though the French and Indian War was over, the British continued to keep a large
number of soldiers in the colonies. Many colonists chaffed at this. In Boston, many were very
upset that British soldiers were also moonlighting at local jobs. There was not enough work to
go around as it was. It was a protest over this that ignited the so-called Boston Massacre of
1770.

One thing that enraged many colonists was the revocation of the Charter
of Massachusetts. In response to the Boston Tea Party, the charter of that colony was revoked,
and the British military was put in charge of the colony. To make matters even worse, the Port
of Boston was closed, strangling the livelihood of many New Englanders. This was all part of
what was known as the Intolerable Acts. Colonists throughout North America saw this as a direct
infringement of their rights as a free people.

Beginning in the early 1770s,
colonists accused of certain crimes were transported to England for trial. This meant that they
did not have access to a fair defense and evidence in their favor that might only be available
back in the colonies. Many times they were deprived of trial by jury, something that they saw as
one of their fundamental rights as Englishmen.

Another grievance had to do
with the seizure of weapons. For generations, colonists had formed local militias to safeguard
their defense against hostile French and Native Americans. However, beginning in 1774, the
British authorities in Massachusetts saw this as a threat to their control and began seizing
gunpowder stores. It was an attempt to seize the gunpowder in Concord that set off the first
battle of the American Revolution.