With the Treaty of Paris 1763, the French were completely removed from North America and England took control of all lands west to the Mississippi River and Canada. When the British took control of the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, Indians began to rise up and attack English settlements. Still recovering from the expenses of the French and Indian War, King George declared that he should consolidate all settlements east of the Appalachian Mountains. In addition, England made a formal proclamation that no one could settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Many of the colonists felt that they earned the right to settle west of the Appalachians since they were instrumental in winning England’s victory during the Seven Years War.…
Britain won in the French and Indian War (1754–63).This war cost both countries a crazy amount of money. A lot of this money was spent to protect the American colonists from French Canadians and their Native American allies. The British government felt the Americans should help pay for the war So they taxed certain items . They taxed all the items that were most used. They also used the colonist's tax money to pay for some of the future costs of stationing soldiers at forts throughout the Western…
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.…
Britain also received Quebec. This land ownership change meant that the French were now gone from the North American continent. The colonists now see that France and Spain have departed and no longer see the need to pay taxes for the British military to protect them from either Spain or France. The British moved into trading posts and the forts left vacant by the French and Spanish.. However, with the French no longer the barrier to the west, the colonists began expanding westward. This caused friction with the Indians and fighting began between colonists and Indians. The fighting required a military force which cost money. Britain now needed more revenue to pay for the troops to fight the Indians for the colonists. To grow this revenue the British would impose several taxes on the colonists, angering them.…
What caused the colonists to win the American Revolution? The American Revolution started on April 19, 1775, and ended on September 3, 1783. It was a revolution against whether slavery should be legal or if it should be abolished. The revolution would ultimately lead to slavery being abolished and freeing the enslaved people because of the colonists. The colonists won the American Revolution because of the alliances with other countries.…
This lead to more and more colonists and ultimately acquiring more territory. The French and Indian war was the first conflict between major Old world powers ever brought to the Americas. It was the war that lead the United Kingdom to the full-scale colonization of North America. The United Kingdom won the war which removed France from the competitors opening up more land to the English settlers.…
Introduction- Several colonies were established by Great Britain in North America. Overtime Britain and France both wanted to expand their land further into America. Thus the French and Indian War was started with Britain against the French and the Indians. Wars cost money, so after the War was over, the British King taxed the colonists an outrageous amount of money.…
After the battle of Saratoga, the French allied with the colonists. They sent tons of money in aid and they also fought with Britain across the pond, attacking thousands British merchant ships. Britain gained large war debts, the trade which Britain relied on was interrupted. They also lost a large amounts of their men, and lost the entire continent of North America, which made their empire vastly shrink.…
After the French and Indian War, France no longer had a major tract of New World land (Document A) England dominated the New World. (Document A) This led to the Proclamation of 1763, which took a toll on the political relationship between Britain and its colonies. The Native…
The French and Indian war led to England’s greatly expanded territorial claims in the New World and due to the large expansion came a abundantly large debt crisis that Britain had to deal with. The war had literally drained the British treasury. Britain became very bitter and angry at the American colonists for making very few financial contributions to a struggled waged mainly for American benefit. Britain particularly disliked that some colonial merchants were selling food and other related goods to the French in the West Indies for the duration of the war. The English’s general leaders leaned towards a reconstruction of the empire due to the previous actions following the…
In the American Revolution the English had a much larger army, and navy, and had the money necessary. Despite this, the American patriots were able to win their Independence from their harsh rule. First, the Americans where determined, and could raise their own army. Also, the American Patriots acquired help and Alliances, from foreign countries, which the British usually depended on. Finally, the patriots where fighting in America their homeland, a much larger country than England.…
What if… What if American colonists lost the American Revolution and Great Britain won? If American colonists lost I believe more people would die or put on trial for defying the king. I think the king will send more soldiers to fight for him and to kill the leaders and anyone who defied him. We would have the country that we have today.…
When England sent over colonists to Massachusetts bay in the late-to-mid 1600’s They started to have problems with the Native Americans. The colonists started to notice the French were befriending the Natives, and had strong trading lines with them. England, however, was raiding and stealing from the Natives. The colonists wanted to fight the French and Indians, so they didn’t have control over the Ohio river Valley. The valley would provide a safer route west so that the colonists could have more farms, houses, and land.…
Since the founding of Jamestown in 1607 the relationship between the English colonist and the Native Americans was delicate. The greatest troubles between the two groups was land, the colonists didn’t understand the English view of land ownership. The English believed that they owned the land and it didn’t belong to anyone else, land…
In addition they began to attack cities instead of forts. The British colonies soon won the war with the Treaty of Paris. The French were incredible and favored victors at the beginning of the war in the Americas. They had a centralized military organization, skillful leaders who ruled with absolute authority, and soldiers inured to war.…