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The French and Indian War

1.http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/frin.htm

2.http://www.kidport.com/reflib/usahistory/frenchindian/frenindwar.htm

1. The French and Indian war changed the economic, political, and social relationship between England and its colonies. The French and Indian was war very expensive for Britain so to pay off their debit they increased taxis for the colonies. They raised taxis on anything form sugar to tea. Once the taxes were so high the colonist started smuggling in sugar and tea so they didn’t have to pay the high tax. Britain also wanted to keep peace in North America, especially the western colonies, in order to appease some of the Indian tribes the Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued, prohibiting colonists for moving further west past the Appalachian Mountains.

2. The French and the Indian war was fought in America. It was the British and the colonists versus the French and the Indians, their two threats. France and Britain were both wealthy nations and they wanted land in America. The British colonist kept pushing into the French colonist's territory. The Native Americans took sides with the French when the problem arose, so it was caused the French and Indian war because the British were fighting their two enemies, the French and the British.

3. The most important and immediate effect that the French and Indian War had was to emphasize many of the grievances that the American colonists had with their mother country. It was clear by the end of the war that the Americans who had fought in the conflict no longer believed that the fight had anything to do with them, and in fact, this was true. The war was an extension of a set of larger conflicts that had been taking place in Europe, called the Seven Year's War, and had little or nothing to do with what would become the United States. In fact, the eventual result of the French and Indian War was a reduction of the French presence in the Caribbean - a great boon for the British, but ultimately useless to the American colonists. The men and women of the colonies who had fought in the war no longer felt like they owed allegiance to the British, especially after being conscripted to fight in their European war.