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Between the years of 1763 and 1776 many acts and new laws were passed by the King of England and Parliment, which angered the colonists, enough to actually pull away from their founding country. The first in a series of direct and immediate events within these years, which eventually destroyed the relationship, was the Proclamation of 1763. By prohibiting settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, England expected to save money by controlling expansion. Even though most colonists ignored …

…a fierce desire to fight for liberty against both the king and parliament. Finally in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed. It justified that a revolution against England would be necessary because the joint authority of parliament and the king had been too destructive to the rights of the people. In 1776 it seemed that the only way to gain what the colonists wanted was to go to war with the country that once protected them.