Compare And Contrast French And Indian War

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. A multitude of conflicts slowly built up and eventually resulted in the French and Indian war. The English had settled the prosperous thirteen colonies on the Atlantic coast, and the French around the Mississippi River and near connecting waterways. They had made a friendship of fur-trade with the Native Americans, which greatly differed from the harsh relations
The Native American allies lost the fur-trade with the French and had to resort to trading with their new neighbors: their enemies. The British Empire was given all of the North American land East of the Mississippi River, including Spanish Florida. Spain gained the formerly French territory to the West. France lost their expansion in North America and was left with only a few islands in the Caribbean. This ended their reign as a major world power, and they would never be able to regain their title.
The French and Indian war resulted in increased tensions between the British Colonists and their mother country. Britain’s failures at the beginning of the war made the colonists question the strength and power of Great Britain, seeing how easily they were defeated. Taxing of the colonies was forced upon to fix England’s debt without colonist representation in Britain. Slowly, the colonists began to desire independence from their mother country as their best interest was not at