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threat because their empire had become weaker by this point. The British had made a temporary peace with the Native tribes by not settling the lands acquired in the French and Indian War and by freezing colonial movement into the new territory as a temporary solution to the hostile raids in the Royal Proclamation of 1763. For a brief period things were steady, the colonist were proud to be British citizens and things operated smoothly but that would be short lived. Underlying issues would fester and rot this peace. The war was costly and the British needed to pay for its debt somehow. To do so they would move forward with a series of taxes on the colonies and clamp down on smuggling, moving away from their position of salutary neglect. The British would forbid the colonist to move from the overpopulated thirteen colonies into the new territory that had been won, with significant help from the colonies. Although the British had removed foreign threats to their North American colonies they did not account for the domestic threat, the colonist themselves.

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