The French and Indian war officially began in the year 1754, and ended 9 years later in 1763 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Even though the war ensured that the Great Britain gained territorial control in North America, the costs led to the colonies paying for the war expenses through the frontier policy. This had great effects on the colonies businesses and livelihood and thus ultimately led to great discontentment between the British and the colonies eventually leading to the American Revolution.…
For many years, throughout the 17th century and 18th century, Britain maintained a neutral relationship with its American colonies. By upholding salutary neglect, the British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, the American colonies remained obedient to Britain. However, after the French and Indian War (1754-1763), Britain's relations with its colonist were drastically altered. The war greatly damaged Britain's economy and because of its pyrrhic victory, a series of taxes were implemented on the American colonists. The unfair taxation ideologically changed the Americans' views on Britain and they felt they were not represented in Parliament. The French and Indian war altered the relations between Britain and its American colonists politically by giving Britain control of the east, economically by putting Britain in extreme debt and compelling Parliament to impose taxes on its colonists, and ideologically by shifting the colonists' loyalty towards rebellion against Britain.…
The French-Indian War was a major turning point in relations between the Americans and the British. American colonists were generations removed from their British ancestry, and it showed on the battlefield. The Brits and Americans had different tactics and ideals during the war. These differences created bitterness between the Americans and British economically, theologically, and socially following the war due to the fact that the British controlled the colonies and could therefore tax them/tell them what to do. If two countries hate each other, and one of the countries has control of the other one, problems are bound to arise, as they did between America and Britain following the French-Indian War. These problems would eventually lead to the American Revolution.…
For about a century after British colonists settled in America, they were subject to little political constriction under England’s policy of salutary neglect, but when the settlers were threatened by the French and their native American allies, the mother country stepped in and fought to protect the colonies. The war was named “The Seven Year War”. The seven year war changed the friendship between the mother country and the colonies. The change was especially in an ideological sense. The French and Indian War (1754-1763) altered the political, economical, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. English debt lead to unfair taxation of the colonists, and this changed the way they felt about their mother country.What was also altered was, the expansion of land in America that was once uncovered, the way the Americans strived for independence after the war, and the…
For decades, the French traded with the Indian tribes. This move created a civilized alliance with the Indians so that they could have a new region to claim as New France. Precious beaver furs was the main selling point. Soon enough, tensions rose whenever Pennsylvanians and Virginians decided that they also wanted to lay claims on this new found frontier land. This led to massive conflict between the colonies and ended up being one of the most brutal massacres in history. This is also known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian war changed the relationship between the British and American colonies. By seeing this land as a way to enhance each’s wealth and power they would go to no extent to reach their goal, no matter what the consequences were. The French and Indian war changed the perspective of British and American colonies in about every way of economically, ideologically, and politically. Politically it effected the colonies by republicanism, ideologically because of independence, and economically through the taxation.…
Suddenly, the French and Indian War ended with defeat for French Canada. From this point, numerous changes occurred between Americans and the British. Namely political, economic and ideological changes. Land was expanded, taxes were sprung left and right, and most colonists finally believed that it was time to break away from England. All these changes eventually led to the revolution. It was soon known that the British’s success in the French and Indian war transformed the relationship between the Americans and the British.…
The rivalry between the French and the English in obtaining Indian allies as well as defining boarders between the two colonies.…
The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War in Europe, played a large role in the Ideological, Political and Economical changes made between the British and the American Colonists. The defeat of the French in the war gave the British a bittersweet upper hand in the massive economic factors and it also gave the British a gigantic stretch of political control of the American Colonists. On top of the political and economic advances the British won, the war also changed the ideological views between the British and the French.…
The French and Indian War was a crucial event in American history which altered economic, political and ideological relations between the American colonies and Britain forever. It changed the political relationship between England and its colonists because the English were forced to tax the colonies, due to their economical struggles, and impose regulations on colonial life. The colonists in retaliation, boycotted, which further damaging their economic relationship with Great Britain. Ideologically, the war brought up feelings of resentment from the colonies toward Britain.…
The French and Indian War started in 1754 and concluded in 1763. This war was a crucial turning point in American history. During this time, English colonists were attempting to move farther west to the Ohio Valley. This is where the French held their trading posts. This move only infuriated them even more.…
Britain and France have had existing rivalries as they have fought wars against one another throughout history. During the 1700’s, these nations were growing their colonies in the New World and trying to become self-sufficient. The French and Indian war was a territorial dispute between the two world powers. The French and their Native American allies fought the British colonists for seven years over control in North America. Their expanding colonies eventually met at the Ohio River Valley and their existing tensions became stronger.…
The French and Indian War changed the relationship between the American colonies and their British counterparts from economic dependence to incompatibility and from political separation to a direct conflict of interests.…
During the war for independence, the colonists receive support from the Spanish and the French to fight against the British. The Indian tribes of North America were also very involved in the fight and much like the American Civil War, some tribes were split; Indian brothers fought against brothers. Some smaller tribes supported the colonists however; the larger alliances supported Great Britain because of their commitment to recognize their sovereignty.…
The time period of 1754-1763 eventually led the American colonists to realize that they did not need the British any longer. The colonists felt that they themselves, were not Englishmen but members of their own society within the American colonies. By winning the French and Indian war the British were entitled to the land east of the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. As the Americans began to move westward thinking that if they fought the war in the colonies, they were entitled to that land. While the American soldiers and their families were moving upon the lands they had won, the Indians attacked. The Americans asked for Parliament's protection, and assumed since they fought for them that Britain would assist them. Unforutanely,…
The French-Indian war established the American Colonies in the Eastern seaboard of the North American Continents. The war was funded and fought by the British Empire and often referred to as the “7 year war” though in actuality it lasted 9 years. Although most of the fighting took…