How did British policy toward the colonies change after the French and Indian War?
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Britain needed to pay the costs of the French and Indian War and administer the colonies, so it adopted some new policies. These measures included new taxes, aggressive ways of collecting such taxes, and more severe methods of enforcing these policies. For example, Grenville's Revenue Act of 1764 (known as the Sugar Act) lowered the duties colonists had to pay on molasses, but it taxed sugar and other goods imported to the colonies and increased penalties for smuggling. Violators could be prosecuted in British vice-admiralty courts without jury trials. The colonists considered these policies as a way to deprive them of their civil rights and liberty. And when the colonists resisted the Sugar Act, Britain reacted by imposing a harsher tax, the Stamp Act, which required colonists to buy special stamps and use them on everything from newspapers to playing cards. Britain also wanted to stop any further wars between the colonists and Indians, so it passed the Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited settlement in lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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