in what ways did the French and Indian War alter the political, economic and ideological relations....?

Question

between Britain and its American colonies?? I need simple answers and help understanding the question. Thank you!

Answer 1

1) The British, trying to keep Indian anger in check, forbade colonists from settling across the Appalachians. The colonists were counting on being able to claim this land (and many, including Washington, already had made land claims there).

2) The British government, partly to try to recoup the great expenses of the war, shifted from its earlier practice (later dubbed "salutary neglect") and started trying to collect taxes from the colonists, and enforce laws limiting who the colonists could trade with.

This was consistent with "mercantalist" theory, in which colonies existed SOLELY for the benefit of the mother country. BUT Britain, unlike other European powers, had not been practicing it... The shift to doing so aroused anger.

American colonists had been allowed to take care of their own affairs for several generations -- that included the risks of frontier life AND the use of local legislatures to pass laws about their OWN affairs. The perception that these freedoms were being taken away aroused colonial opposition.

(Note too that the practice of "salutary neglect" had shaped the WAY the colonial economy developed. Shifting away from that threatened the local economic system and businesses. )

Answer 2

here's a place to start:

Brits: Hey, you Colonists owe us a lot of money..that war againts the French and the Indians cost us a bunch!


Colonists: Now that the French and their Indian allies aren't a threat anymore, and we played a major role in whoompin them....who needs you Brits telling us what to do?


inset seven years of nasty arguments

then cue the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord.