8th Grade History Help!!!??? Plz....! 10 points for best answer!!!!!!?

Question

I dont have a textbook to look over this but all I have is a piece a paper with not much info.....but here is my question:

Why would Great Britain believe that colonists should help pay the costs of the French and Indian War?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

To make things simple for you, Great Britain was running short on money due to the national debt they had amassed from the wars they'd been fighting, establishing the colonies, buying lush imports from other countries, etc. This lead Great Britain to believe the colonists should help pay for their war as well, even though they were thousands of miles away. The colonists opposed this because they believed they should be their own set of people, not a group of slaves who pay tribute to some pompous ruler in Great Britain when they hardly do anything for the Colonists anyhow. Meanwhile Great Britain believed that since they helped the colonists out in the past by getting them there in the first place, they should be allowed to charge the colonists with ridiculously high taxes. As you can guess, this lead to the Revolutionary War in the colonies, which in turn lead to the formation of America.

Answer 2

The French and Indian War was one part of a world conflict between Britain and France. It was fought to decide which of the two powerful nations would rule North America.

The British defeated the French in North America in Seventeen-Sixty-Three. As a result, it took control of lands that had been claimed by France. Britain now was responsible for almost two-million people in the thirteen American colonies and sixty-thousand French speaking people in Canada. In addition to political and economic responsibilities, Britain had to protect all these colonists from different groups of Indians.

This would cost a lot of money. Britain already had spent a lot of money sending troops and material to the colonies to fight the French and Indian War. It believed the American colonists should now help pay for that war.

Answer 3

Simple- the British believed that the French -Indian War was to protect the colonials. Since the war had taken place in America, the colonies would have suffered if the French Indian war had been lost. However, the British successfuly protected the colonies, but spent much money doing so. So, the british demanded that the colonies pay for the war through taxes

Answer 4

because Great Britan was in need of money because they were so in debt from the war
who better to tax than the colonies?

Answer 5

well what is it about go on the Internet and do a google then see what i pulls up and look and get some information and the use it and rite a report

Answer 6

They were still British subjects.

Answer 7

Don't you think you should be doing your own homework?

Answer 8

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