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How Did The French Indian War Contribute To The American Revolution

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All of time and all of history is built up of cause and effect events. These events shape our past, our present, and our future. One of the more significant events being that of the French and Indian War; and how it helped lead to the start of the American Revolutionary War. The French Indian War was very essential to the uprising of the revolution in many ways. First off, the debt of the French Indian War was the reason parliament started imposing taxes on the colonist in the first place. The Sugar Act, was made to try and stop the smuggling of sugar and molasses. This tax was given to the people to help settle the debt of the war, and it started an argument of “taxation without representation”. This dispute helped spread the idea of breaking …show more content…

(“How the Seven Years War lead to the American Revolution” ancestralfindings.com) The Stamp Act was considered one of the most obnoxious taxes, because it was the first direct tax on the people since coming to the new world. This act angered citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. (revolutionary-war.net/french-and-indian-war) It had caused a rift between the colonies and the crown for the reason that the colonist were fed up with being drained of all their money, especially for a war they weren’t permitted to fight in. So they boycotted and protested until Parliament decided to lift the taxes against the …show more content…

Another one of these dominoes being the fact that the King had refused to allow the colonist to fight in the war against the French. The colonies wanted protection from their mother country which they had the right to do. (“How the French and Indian War Lead to the American Revolution” bartleby.com) The king, fearing that the colonies would revolt, didn’t grant them the money for the war, he instead sent over his own troops to fight the war. This outraged the colonist because they were denied the ability to exercise their right to bear arms. But the colonist got even with Britain when they gained France as an aly during the American

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