Analyze the breakdown of relations between the colonies and Great Britain between 1763 and 1775.

The French
and Indian war ended in 1763 with a British victory. Britain gained territories in the North
America, and the American colonists were relieved of the fear that they would be taken over by
the French. With that threat removed, they had little need to rely on their parent country any
more.

Over time, in part due to the British policy of salutary neglect that
turned a blind eye to the colonists' breaking of English tariff laws, the Americans developed a
strong taste for independence. On top of that, multiple generations of British colonists had
been born in America at this point, and many had never been to Britain. Ties to the mother
country weakenedand, further, a good number of colonists, as Thomas Paine pointed out in his
1775 pamphlet Common Sense, came from countries other than Britain, such as
the Netherlands, Germany, and France.

What fueled the breakdown was the
British insistence that the Americans help shoulder the costs of the very expensive French and
Indian war....