The text authors claim that in 1763, George Grenville “considered the

The text authors claim that in 1763, George Grenville “considered the provincials [colonists] to be spoiled children.” Evaluate his point of view.

Why might he have been justified in thinking this? In what way was his view mistaken or shortsighted?

ANSWER
Consider as justification: colonists had not been held to strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts (salutary neglect); colonists were lightly taxed compared to subjects in England; colonists had acted irresponsibly in trading with the enemy during the French and Indian War.
Consider as shortsightedness: colonists were important to the profitability of imperial trade; the colonists’ chronic imbalance of trade and the drain of specie from the colonies to England was their way of contributing to the costs of empire.