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Compare And Contrast The French And Indian War

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The United States of America, one of the greatest countries on earth today. A place that 318.9 million people call their home. A country whose identity has been formed by a series of wars, people, political events, and more day in and day out. Going back to the earliest stage of America that we know, The French and Indian war was the first major war that started to create and form the America we know today. For over a century the French and British lived peacefully amongst one another in the new world. The French and Indian War started by the French and the British wanting to expand their country's ruling over the new world. Because of the two countries both being there at the same time there needed to be boarders to signify whose land was …show more content…

This made it difficult to tell whether you were on French or British land. Britain was in control of what we call the 13 Colonies until the Appalachian Mountains. After the Appalachian Mountains was the French Region, called New France, a much bigger and larger region than the British. From Louisiana, through the Mississippi Valley; from the Great Lakes to Canada all of this was under French control. One disputed valley was the Upper Ohio Valley, the French built many different forts in this region. The reason was to make the French presence and claim on this land known to the British. The British then developed an attack on the French in this valley, Lieutenant Colonel George Washington led them into battle for this attack. His forces were overtaken by the French’s overwhelming number of troops. As news spread to the British Prime Minister about the failed attack he called for a another quick strike on the the French again. These small attacks just to gain control over a disputed region of land led to a large, full scale war. On February 10th, 1763 the French and Indian war officially ended with the signing of not one but two treaties: The treaty …show more content…

Because of the bitterness of the French about losing their land in the new world, the French ended up joining the Patriots. The French became a major ally for the Patriots when they started to support them. Thanks to Benjamin Franklin’s popularity with the French, the people in France wanted their country to help support the Americans. Franklin was seen as a representative of the British Colonists, he was viewed as a republican with simplicity and honesty. There became a huge rage in France to start supporting the Colonists. Charles Gravier Comte De Vergennes, (a French statesman during the reign of Louis XVI), agreed to give the colonists a secret loan, but not to fully establish an alliance at first due to the Spanish. The Spanish was weary of a US independence and they also wanted their land back if they went to war with the British. This made the French take a longer time to enter the war because of talks with the Spanish. Without the French joining the American Revolution the Patriots could have lost the

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The French and Indian war was the final colonial war and it to place from 1689 to 1763. It was the last of four American wars. This war altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between British and the French. During this time each country fought for control of the continent with the help of the Native Americans and colonial allies. Britain and American colonies were defeated even though Britain had already won all the land (Document 1).

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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).

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The colonies relied on France for aid, but this gave France an undue amount of influence. As LaFeber explains, “No sooner did France promise to help, however, than Vergennes instructed his agents in the New World to keep the United States as small and weak as possible” (LaFeber, 23). “By 1779-1780, the Continental Congress seemed to be a slave to Vergennes. Its sad state was not due solely to the number of American politicians on the French payroll…but because U.S. survival seemed to depend on French help.”

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France did a great deal to help the American colonists during their war for independence from the United Kingdom. It is possible to argue that the American colonists would not have won the war if it had not been for the French assistance. The French did not get involved in the American Revolution right away. The French did want to support the Americans because they wanted to hurt Great Britain (which was their main enemy in Europe).

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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.

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French and Indian War Great Britain wanted land west of the Appalachian Mts., but the French wouldn’t give it up. They started a war that was fought in Europe, and Britain fought out the rest of the war in Europe and expected the colonists to pay off the remaining debt, even though the colonists couldn’t move into the land that was won. The colonists got mad because Britain expected them to pay the debt off. The Proclamation of 1763 Great Britain put in place a proclamation and told the colonies that they had to pay for the war and that the war that Britain had fought won the land, but they couldn’t move to the land that they had won. Even if the colonists paid for the land they were forbidden from moving to the land.

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After the French and Indian War, Great Britain acquired all the land that stretched from the Appalachian mountains to the Mississippi River from the French. This land agreement was the result of the Treaty of Paris. The war officially ended French's control of land in North America because French gave the rest of their land west of the Mississippi to Spain as compensation for Spain's loss of Florida to the British. Even with the prosperous land acquired after the war, King George III passed the Proclamation of 1763 which forbidden colonial settlers from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. The main reason the Proclamation of 1763 was passed was to fulfill the promise Britain made with the Indians to evacuate settlers to the eastern part of the Appalachian Mountain in return for their support in the war; however, it was also passed to prevent future conflicts between the Indians and the colonists.

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If France had not joined the Americans, their army would have been much weaker. France had lots to gain back, mainly off of revenge. They would have status and land with the power and allies to help. Spain provided a vast fleet of submarines and other naval force ships. The loyalists did not have much of an underwater defense, so this was a huge positive for power on the Patriot side.

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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.

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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.

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The French involvement played a crucial role in America winning the revolution, with the French joining the fight with them they gained man power, resources, and the strength with both of them combined to beat the

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The main cause of the war was conflict between Britain and France over who had more rights to land in the Ohio River Valley. The French believed they had rights to the land because they “had explored and claimed a vast amount of land in the interior of North America, ranging from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes in the north to the Mississippi River and New Orleans in the south.” (Moore). Britain believes they have rights to the land because they had already “offered large land grants for settlement.” (Keenan), so when colonists discovered that the French had began building forts they sent soldiers

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In the first place, both the American and French Revolution had their causes that would change history. The American Revolution was caused by the greed of the British and the thoughts of the enlightened people. All the peasants wanted to be free of the unfair taxation on items such as tea and stamps considering they had no say. This coincides with James Otis’s phrase, “taxation without representation is tyranny,” which led to, “no taxation without representation.”

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With the support of the French, the American colonists scraped into an unexpected shift toward the winning of the American Revolution. However, the main reason for the French allying themselves with the American colonists was because of a French aristocrat, the Marquis de Lafayette. Only through the help of men like Lafayette could the American Revolution be feasible. Lafayette was on the path to become a Revolutionary ever since he was a boy. “At just [two] years old, the death of his father set his first toddler's step on the path to America, a quest fueled by dual desires for vengeance and revolutionary ideals” (The Marquis de Lafayette).

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The French-Indian War of 1754-1763 resulted in political, ideological, and economic alterations within Britain and its American colonies. The French and Indian War, also referred to as The Seven Years War, began with British and French conflicts across the Ohio River Valley, as both nations wanted to claim the land for themselves. The first blood of the French-Indian War began with multiple British failures, including Washington’s dreadful defeat at Fort Necessity and General Braddock’s failed attempt at conquering Fort Duquesne, in which he died along with two-thirds of his army (Document C). The British would, however, gain momentum in 1759 with multiple victories, including their most significant triumph, Quebec.

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