The French & Indian war also known as the Seven Years War, impacted the Indians, French, and English. It devastated the French who lost, destroyed Indian alliances, and it also affected the English colonies as well. This war caused many problems for the relationship between England and the colonies and led to a future war, The American Revolution! One of the major consequences that Great Britain had to deal with was the fact that they had no money whatsoever to pay off the huge debt that lingered over them. For every victory that the British had conquered, there was a higher cost that loomed in their presence. The cost of the war had significantly enlarged and engulfed Britain’s debt which had generated conflicts between …show more content…
Nevertheless, the thought of the colonists settling wherever they see fit did not please the French Indian alliances who did not accept defeat from the English. Pontiac, a powerful chief of the Ottawa Tribe attacked and raided British settlements in response to their defeat in the French & Indian War. Pontiac’s uprising would soon be disposed by the combined efforts of British and colonial soldiers but the tensions still remained high in the colonies. To induce a population movement and to diminish the violence in the colonies, the British government created the Proclamation line of 1763. This new law forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to further separate the English settlers and Indians from each other. However, this Proclamation line backfired on the British government as it restricted trade with Indians to colonial governors and forbid private Indian sales. The boundary also seemed ineffective as population growth started to increase with hundreds of settlers crossing the line thus causing more problems for the British …show more content…
In 1764, Parliament enacted the Sugar Act in order to raise revenue in the colonies for the debt. This act lowered the duty on French Molasses and elevated penalties for smugglers and smuggling. This act also strengthened enforcement policies allowing all British Crews to act as impromptu officers and inspect and naval ships that seem suspicious or seize cargoes that seemed to be in violation. This caused many revolts of vigilance among the smugglers and British crews which led to many severe confrontations in the ports. Resulting in these many confrontations, many of the colonists questioned whether the British rule was effective enough to control the colonies. By 1765, after George Greenville Sugar Act added no dent in Great Britain’s national dent, he heightened his revenue plan with the Stamp Act. No doubt that this act triggered a major conflict between the colonies and the British as the act forced a tax on all paper used for official documents. It had affected nearly everyone who had a substantial business and users of official document in legal communities. From the British point of view, the Stamp act seemed reasonable to impose a tax to raise money for debt but the colonist thought otherwise. The colonist argued that only their own assemblies could impose such a tax on them and stated that
The act applied a tax on all paper used for official documents, which caused a conflict between Britain and the colonies over the Parliament’s right to tax. Newspapers, pamphlets, court documents, licenses, wills, and ships’ cargo lists required a stamp to prove that the tax has been paid. ”Unlike the Sugar Act, which regulated trade, the Stamp Act was designed plainly and simply to raise money” (141). A huge majority of the people were affected by this act, especially professions in the business and legal communities that used official documents.
The French Indian War was the starting point of the American Revolution. Britain began to neglect the Colonies which lead to America gained self rule and military experience. Along with that, taxes pushed by Britain created resentment from the colonies and therefore resulted in colonial backlash. Part of the problem was the separation between Britain and the Colonies. The Colonies were an agrarian society, while Britain was evolving into an industrial society, which created a lot of cultural diversity between the two.
That same year, George Grenville created the Stamp Act. Unlike the Sugar Act that was placed a year prior to this act, the Stamp Act affected everyone. This act served as a means of financial support towards the British army by placing taxes on newspapers, government prints, playing cards etc. This was an attempt by England to “raise revenue” from the colonies without the consent of colonial assemblies. Although George Grenville's argued that the colonies are only paying this for their protection by the British troops, and that citizens in Britain have also underwent this same tax style for a longer, including heavier fees, the colonists began to feel as if they were being cheated in a sense and that the Grenville was imposing this tax only for Britain’s benefit.
The French and Indian war took place from 1754 and ended in 1763, the same time as the Treaty of Paris was established. This war was also known as the Seven Years’ war. This war bought many conflicts from different aspects that had an affect on Great Britain and different colonies. The war changed the relationship, politically, between Great Britain and different colonies drastically.
The French and Indian War brought about unexpected burdens to the British Empire. The cost of the war had greatly increased their debt and also brought about great territorial claims in the New World. The war made English leaders, who were not satisfied with the financial and military help received during the war, resent the colonists. These factors led to English leaders to believe that the colonies needed reorganization and political reconstruction with a center authority in London. The overbearing control given to London contributed largely to the resentment colonists had toward British imperial policies.
The French and Indian War altered the relations of the American Colonies and Britain through political, economic, and geographical issues. At the start of the French and Indian War the French owned a big majority of land but the during the war the French lost their land to the English. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 gave the English, the French land of North America (Doc A).
In order to help pay off the debt the war had caused, they implemented two laws to extort money from the colonists. The first was the Currency Act of 1764, which prohibited all colonies from making and using their own paper money. This allowed creditors to demand payment in gold and silver, which was needed in the colonies. The second law was called the Sugar Act, which lowered the tax on imported molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon. Parliament hoped that this law would stop merchants from bribing customs officers to certify their French molasses as British by making it a lower price to begin with.
The French and Indian war was a seven year war between England and the American colonies and some of the Indians in North America. When the war was over, the French lost control of Canada. The Indians that had been threatening the Americans that lived there were defeated. When the war was only supposed to be against the English and the American Colonists and some of the Indians in North America it changed to become a world war. The British spent a lot of money fighting the war and the colonists had been part of it.
(Doc B). This display of intolerance towards the colonists settling the Native’s lands foreshadowed Pontiac’s Uprising and the violence between the two groups. In order to ease the tensions Britain made the Proclamation of 1763, which stated that colonists could not settle past the Appalachian mountains. The Americans were outraged by this and defied this political act and continued to flood the West with settlers. This was not the only outrage in America.
The Peace Settlement of 1763 kicked France off the North American continent and gave Canada and Florida to England, and Mississippi to Spain. Now that the colonists had no fear of a nearby enemy (France) they felt confident to move west at a breakneck pace. Mother England soon checked this freedom in order to appease the Indians and return the colonies to a state of peace and prosperity. To assert their control over the colonists they passed the Proclamation of 1763. This proclamation stated that no colonists may cross the Appalachian Mountains.
Chapter 1.4 and 2 Study Guide After reading chapter 1.4 and chapter 2, please define the following terms and answer the following questions in your own words. Enlightenment-ideas about nature that led to a movement in which philosophers valued reason and scientific methods Great Awakening- a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during 1730’s-1750 French and Indian War- a conflict in N orth America, lasting from 1754 to 1763, that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain Proclamation of 1763- an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains.
The primary participants in the Seven Years War, known as the French and Indian War in the British Colonies, were France and Great Britain. The basic premise of the war was to determine who would gain control of North America. The war began in 1754 and ended in 1763 with France’s defeat. The Treaty of Paris between France and Great Britain turned over all French lands in North America to the British with the exception of New Orleans which was passed onto Spain. While this was a victory for Great Britain, this could be put into the category of be careful what you wish for.
The French and Indian War resulted from conflicts between the Native Americans and the colonists engaging in various conflicts ultimately leading into the French and Indian War. Following the war the French had lost all their territory they had in Western America and was taken over by the British Empire. Although the British gained land, which doubled the amount of land they had originally, they had found themselves in a tremendous amount of debt. The British believed since the war was fought on the colonist land and developed because of the colonies the colonies should be the ones paying off most of the British debt that accumulated during the war. Bearing in mind, during the war the colonies had united together realising they need to be unified
The Seven Years War, also known as the French and Indian war in America, lasted from 1754 to 1763. Before the war began the French and controlled the Louisiana territory and claimed Canada for themselves. From 1754 to 1763, the British and French battled for this wilderness of huge potential in a conflict which, though part of the wider Seven Years War, have been named The French and Indian War. The British captured of Montreal, and The French and Indian War was essentially over. “In the 1750s, Britain and France had colonies in North America.
The American Revolution The French and Indian War impacted the American Revolution in many ways. Britain incurred a large debt from the cost of the war and the taxes that they imposed on the colonists created feelings of anger and rebellion that led to the revolution. As a result of the French and Indian war, the British were not at full strength which allowed the actions of the colonists to be more effective. Because of the outcome of the war, France was willing to help the colonists. Without the much needed help from the French the colonist may have never won the war.