In addition, government bureaucracy expanded in order to collect the needed revenue. This taxation strategy tended to burden consumers disproportionately. In order to address this onerous liability, British officials turned to larger import duties on enumerated goods like sugar and tobacco, along with a series of high excise (sales) taxes on goods such as salt, beer, and spirits.
The British Government had borrowed heavily from British and Dutch bankers to finance the war, and as a consequence the national debt almost doubled from £75 million in 1754 to £133 million in 1763. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ratified Britain’s undisputed control of the seas and shipping trade, as well as its sovereignty over much of the North American continent east of the Mississippi River (including French Canada).īut a steep price accompanied the fruits of total victory. The French and Indian War, or Seven Years War, represented the decisive turning point in British-colonial relations.
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