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Post #2's first part is (finally) up.
Well, hi folks-sorry it took so long to get back to this, but hopefully this lets y'all know that the TL's not dead(not at all). Just hadn't gotten things to work out as well as I'd hoped initially. So anyway, thought I'd let y'all know that Post #2 is going to be a big one so I've decided to split it up into several parts.
After the British were able to secure their victory against the French at the conclusion of the French & Indian war, the frontier of the Thirteen Colonies began to expand significantly westward as settlers began to pour in from elsewhere in the British Empire and other regions.....
For a brief moment in time, the British were confident in believing that the future was quite bright for their ventures in the New World, but several complications quickly began to emerge. Chiefly, the Mother Country's debt had ballooned significantly, causing serious headaches for the government...
Therefore, policymakers in London found it necessary to raise taxes on their colonies, including their colonies in the New World, including in North America, with two of the first of these being the Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act that followed 1765. However, though, there was a problem; many in the Thirteen Colonies were not particularly amenable to higher taxation--especially in many poorer regions--and even as early as 1764, some protests against these new Acts had already begun in earnest, with later American Revolutionary luminaries Samuel Adams and James Otis leading many of the efforts in Massachusetts.....