In history one of the most disreputable wars was the French and Indian War which occurred between 1754 and 1763. This war was between France and Great Britain. The result was British victory and ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1763. According to A History of the American People, the English conquered nearly all of the French possessions east of the Mississippi, even taking Florida from the Spanish. France loses all its mainland possessions (126). This is the end of the French and Indian War, but the beginning of a revolution. The result of this war lets the English begin taxing the colonists to pay for the war. This is what begins the Prelude to the American Revolution, 1763 to 1775. The prelude to this revolution included many policies and restrictions that wanted America to desire freedom from Great Britain. Some of these policies and restrictions were the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, the Townshend Revenue Act, the Tea Act, Coercive or Intolerable Acts and others. The aftermath of the French and Indian War led the British to decide to keep 10,000 regular soldiers stationed. in North America. This led to a greater debt for the English to maintain this force during the fighting. In 1764, Prime Minister George Grenville decided to obtain the necessary revenue from the American colonists. This prompted Parliament to pass a measure known as the Sugar Act, which imposed a tariff on sugar imported into the colonists (132). Most of the colonists were angry because the British government? he acted without permission. They didn't like being controlled by the British. This led attorney James Otis to state that “taxation without representation is tyranny” (132), meaning that the colonists had no representation in Parliament and believed it was unjust. The... half of the paper... on it (137). Then there was the act of 1774, in which Parliament passed a series of acts, after the Boston Tea Party. These acts were coercive and intolerable act. This was a series of four acts aimed at punishing the Bostanians for their tea party. These four acts were the Boston Tea Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering act. In conclusion, the damage from the French and Indian War led to this conflict between the British and the Americans. These were some policies and restrictions that were part of the prelude to the American Revolution. Did Americans rebel against the British monarchy? because they were being taxed by the English to pay for the damage they had created. The Americans didn't like the way they were treated, so it left them no choice but to rebel, which was the beginning of the American Revolution.