To understand the outcome and consequences of the French and Indian war, we must First have a foundation of the events leading up to the war and how those events determined the future of the peoples of what is now, The United States of America. In the early 1750s, the expansion of the French territory into the Ohio River Valley repeatedly brought it into conflict with the claims of the British colonies, specifically Virginia. The British controlled the thirteen colonies seeking to expand west (initially), while the French controlled Canada and wanted to expand South. In conquest for new territory and power, the two met at the Ohio River with vital access to the Mississippi River, a crucial trading route. This conflict eventually led to …show more content…
Supported by Great Britain, France and Spain, the French were entirely ousted from the continental North America, surrendering their territory of Canada to Great Britain following the war. “All French territory on the mainland of North America was lost. The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley;” which would later serve as a strategic battle point and trading route. “The port of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi were ceded to Spain for their efforts as a British ally.” (8d. The Treaty of Paris 1763 and Its Impact, http://www.ushistory.org/us/8d.asp.) In an attempt to keep the Native Americans happy and in part being sympathetic to the Indian tribes in the colonial area, the British put into law that no new colonies be established west of the Appalachian mountains, due to the Proclamation of 1763 (Howard Zinn, A People’s Hist. of the US, pgs 70&71) Intended to establish peace between the Native Americans and the colonials, the Proclamation of 1763 would ultimately fuel several levies and taxations imposed upon the colonists by Great Britain and evidently lead to the American Revolution. Often referred to as taxation without “visual representation”, the colonists resisted these reforms and allowed the colonists to feel more united. “Some of the intercolonial rivalry was broken down in the face of a common enemy. The first sign of nationalism was seen when settlers from all thirteen colonies lay down their lives together.” (8d. The Treaty of Paris 1763 and Its Impact,
the british and the french have been fighting for 200 years and they were stealing each others colonies the british did not want the french to be the spanish throne. Britain won the war and got the acadia land and the french did not In 1763 the french signed the treaty of paris and then gave acadia and new france to britain. The proclamation allowed the french to have their` language and the religion. The french kept their civil wars.
During the United States’ infancy, many French influences began to affect American policies. France colonized the middle of the United states from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains to New Orleans. This vast land colony was lost after the peace treaty following the Seven Years War. Forced to cede their American lands to the English and Spanish, France never forgot their prized possession. Choiseul’s plan to recover the lands started with the unrest in America before the American Revolution, “In 1766, Choiseul ordered Edmé Genet to send a naval officer-turned-spy— Sieur Pontleroy— to America to evaluate colonist dissatisfaction and determine whether French arms and money might help incite rebellion.”
This book was a first option because of its possible credibility and it really came out to be a book that helps understand the topic. To what the book I known for it is very much a book exactly for what t will be used. The book was made to accompany a four-part documentary about the same topic aired on PBS, but the book is enough to obtain the information that is needed to become a type of expert in the topic with details, facts, and great writing that gives the matter a noteworthy prospective and style. The French and Indian War is, as the title says, what made the United States.
The french and Indian war alter the political and ideological relations between Great Britain and the american colonies in many different ways. The war enable Britain to be more involved with colonial political and economic affairs. After the war Britain also ended their policy of salutary neglect. After a while their plan to make money of the colonies soon lead to the revolutionary war because it increased tension and outrage among the american colonies.
The French and Indian War altered many relations between Britain and American colonies. After the war, the English ended up with more land just as well as the Russians, while the French lost most of it, and the Russians expanded just a little bit more. After 1763, English colonies had dominated the new world. The English debt had lead to taxation that colonist found unfair, and this made them change their perspective on how they looked at the world or as they called it, “mother nature”. When the English colonies dominated the new world it took a toll on the relationship with the American colonist and Britain and that led to the Proclamation of 1763.
Multiple factors led to the start of the French and Indian War. A power struggle was already occurring, and Britain and France were already enemies. Colonists were aligned with their respective countries, and Native Americans were caught in the middle of European expansion. Natives were more apt to be allied with the French due to their trading economy, but both sides had Native American allies depending on the circumstances. 1 “To safeguard their lands west of the mountains, Native Americans played off one European power against another.”
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).
Throughout the course of history, Britain and its colony in America were never truly one united being leading to major alterations after the French and Indian War. Firstly, the roots of the major alterations can be traced to the early days of the colonies. Many colonies were founded off people who believed that they would have a better life in an unknown land, showing their desperateness. Slightly further into colonial history, Britain would dump its prisoners in the American colonies. Because of this, it can be seen that Britain saw the American colonies as a garbage dump of the ‘failures of England’.
The French and Indian War seems unavoidable if we gaze back on it now. Back in the 1700’s England and France were terrible enemies, who would attack each other whenever they could. When the English first reached North America they claimed it as their own, but they were not alone. The French had claimed the area to the north for their themselves.
This treaty brought an end to French power in North America which resulted in Britain taking all of France’s
The French and Indian War was a war from 1754 to 1763 between the Kingdom of Great Britain and France in North America. The war extended to the world as part of the Seven Years War. It officially came to a close with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and North America territories were divided to United Kingdom. Spain ceded Florida to the United Kingdom. France ceded Louisiana to the east of Mississippi River to the United Kingdom as compensation.
The war led to the expansion of British territory in North America, as well as to the removal of the French from the region. The war also had a significant impact on the relationship between the colonies and the British Empire, as the colonies began to assert their own political and economic interests. Finally, the war had a profound impact on the Native American tribes that had allied with the French, as they were forced to cede territory and adapt to new political
The French and Indian war was one of many wars between France and Great Britain. The wars started in the early 1600s but the French and Indian war didn’t start until 1754 and then seven years later it ended in 1763. The French and Indian war took place because the French and Great Britain wanted to expand their North American land West of the Appalachian mountains, also known as the Ohio territory. They also wanted the Ohio Territory because they wanted to trade with the North American Indians. The war took place in a lot of different locations around the world like Europe, India, and North America.
The French and Indian war, also known as the Seven Years’ war, was fought between France and Great Britain. It started because of French expansion into the Ohio Valley. This expansion created conflict
The French and Indian War was important to the American Revolution because the debt from the war was the reason that Parliament started taxing the colonists. Also, the French and Indian War made Britain very weak, making the colonists’ actions work a whole lot better. Since France was not happy with the outcome of their war with Britain this was a main reasons for France’s interest in helping the now Americans throughout the Revolutionary War, which was very important to the colonies’ victory. The reason why Britain started to tax the colonists was because of the debt resulting from the French and Indian War. The first tax was the the tax on sugar, which was put on the colonists to help pay off the war debt.