Is it fair that the french and Indian war caused the American Revolution? Give at least 2 reasons for you anse

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Answer 1

Is it fair?

The French and Indian War, or Seven Years War as it is now called, was one important cause. One reason was that the British government went deeply into debt for the war, and felt that the colonies needed to help pay for it, as it was fought to protect them. It was these new taxes which made the colonists increasingly rebellious.

Answer 2

~The Seven Years War, of which the French and Indian War was but a minor part, had consequences which fomented a minority of colonials toward the civil war, erroneously called a revolution.

As a result of the war, the French were gone and the natives had been displaced. This made the protection of British troops much less necessary for the colonists. It also made lands west of the Appalachians more attractive. The Treaty of Paris guaranteed to the natives, at least those who had allied with the British, that there would be no further encroachment onto their lands. The colonials, being British, were bound by those treaties. The land was more important than the empty promises on a piece of paper. The British could not afford to defend an ever expanding empire and attempted to restrict growth to the lands granted by the crown and Parliament, as was their right and under the treaties, their obligation. The colonials wanted the land. The dispute over the western migration fueled the flames.

The war all but bankrupted Great Britain. Prior to the war, there were, in theory, taxes on the colonists. Those taxes were imposed with as much representation to the colonists as to the homeland Brits. Those taxes were actually higher than the ones imposed by the Townshend Acts, which replaced them. However, before the war Parliament had turned a blind eye to the rampant tax fraud being committed in the colonies. After the war and due to the depression at home and throughout the empire was the war helped bring about, Parliament decided it was high time the colonials footed some of the bill for the benefits they had reaped from the homeland at little or no expense since the founding of Jamestown and they actually tried, for a change, to collect the taxes. This naturally did not sit well with the colonial British who were pretty much used to having their cake and eating it too.

Trade regulations had always been in place and were designed for the good of the entire empire as a whole. Before the war, the rampant smuggling which built so many colonial fortunes had been largely overlooked. After the war, with the economic turmoil that it had engendered, the trade regulations were enforced. The colonial British didn't cotton to that either. They wanted to be able to freely trade with the French and the Spanish and any number of other enemies of the British. They saw no reason not to provided the French with implements of war or to otherwise help the French ready themselves for yet another war with the British. By this time, the colonials (or some of them) had tried to forget that they were, in fact, British. There was a buck to be made, what mattered the consequences. Hey, it worked in Iran-Contra and Prescott Bush (father of George H W and grandfather of George W) was still the head money man for the Nazis in America even as the troops were landing in Africa and as George H W was doing his flight training to join the fight. The colonials started the great American tradition of sleeping with the enemy. Anyway, by trading within the law, the taxes could and would be assessed whereas by trading outside the realm, there would be no way to compute, let alone collect, the taxes on manufactured or shipped goods.


The colonials had learned something of tactics during the war and a few of them had gotten some actual combat experience, giving them the false sense that they could create and maintain an army and staff it with home grown officers. The only permissible army in any country is generally the national army. The colonials decided they wanted to have one of their own.

After the war, Great Britain downsized the army and withdrew troops from North America. The diminished military presence gave the loudmouths the courage to speak of insurrection and treason. The growing unrest caused Parliament to beef up the troops stationed in North America again. This naturally didn't sit well with the colonial British, who only wanted the Red Coats here when there was fighting and dying to be done.

The French were still bristling over the loss of much of the French colonial empire in North America and they wanted it back. The colonials knew they couldn't take on the most powerful nation on earth at the time and have any chance at winning. The common foe, the homeland British, made for an alliance between the colonial British and the French - an alliance which would have been unthinkable before the war and which would have been unthinkable had the French not lost. That alliance and the French assistance against the British Army determined the outcome of the war for colonial independence.

Bear in mind that no more than 1/3 of the colonists favored war and independence. Another 1/3 remained loyal to home and country. The remaining third was pretty much neutral. The Seven Years War did not cause the later war, but consequences of it were certainly contributing factors, especially to that third who expected the most gain (ie, the shippers, the merchants, the manufacturers and the growers who wanted markets other than the folks back home - the smugglers and tax cheats, that is) from separation from the empire.

The fledging colonies, so far removed from the seat of government and power, had created their own local governments. They were suffering under the delusion that they had the right to do so. The increasing talk of treason after the war caused many of those governments to be suspended or dissolved. The colonials who thus lost their positions of power took offense. The war didn't really bring this about, but the restrictions and taxes imposed after the lead to some proclamations by the colonial legislatures that in turn led to the dissolution of the legislatures.

There, is that enough for your homework? You've really got to start doing your own work.

Answer 3

It probably didn't. What did was the considerable movement of British troops into the colonies which further rubbed up against "Yankee" independence and pissed off the locals. Couple that with some pretty senseless Indian massacres and you have a preamble for "let's get them SOBs".

After the war, these same Brits headed toward the tea tax fiasco in Boston and boy did that do a number on the locals.

Answer 4

I don't think fair is the correct question. Maybe it should be, did the F&I was cause the American Revoloution. The answer would be no.

Answer 5

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