Discuss and explain in-depth the causes of the American colonial rebellion against British authority and why this rebellion eventually led to a declaration of independence and the formation of a new country called the United States of America. Why after the Seven Years’ War or French and Indian War, did Great Britain’s policy of “salutary neglect” proved no longer viable to sustain what had been from the beginning an uneasy and estranged relationship between the colonies and the British government? What events forced the British government to change its policies in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War that led to colonial protest and resistance to Parliamentary laws? What were these laws designed to do? Finally, what finally prompted the colonials to declare their independence from British sovereignty?