After the defeat of the French during the Seven Years War, British leaders felt the need to tighten their control over their empire. Laws regulating imperial trade and navigation had already been placed on the colonies, but American colonists were notorious for evading these regulations. They were even known to have traded with the French during the recently ended war. From the British point of view, it was only fitting that American colonists should pay their fair share of the costs for their own defense. Thus the British began their attempts to reform the imperial system, much to the...
implemented the Intolerable Acts. Ignorant of the other reactions by the colonist to the other acts, English Parliament placed controls over the colonies until the dam that held back the anger and tensions of the past decades was released resulting in the American Revolution.

British Mercantilism had always worked before with their past empirical expansions. Unfortunately, the English government did not realize that the situation in America required adaptation from their usual proceedings in order to maintain peaceful ties. Had they done this, it is plausible that America would still be a royal territory such as Canada and Australia.