Effects Of French And Indian War On American Culture

The French and Indian War, a war between the two dominant powers in Europe, Britain, and France. This war although became more than a war between two countries, it became a war that sparked the growth of the new settled world America. The French and Indian War had a resounding impact on the colonies affecting not only the colonial perception of the British and Indians but affecting the maturity and capability of the soon-to-be Nation and its leaders.
This growth of the American culture and its people had been slowly starting to come apparent but the aftermath of the war managed to draw up emotions hidden deep down in American colonist's hearts. Benjamin Franklin, a huge benefactor to our Nation's formation, was already starting to lay the

This battle is what caused our founding father George Washington to experience a life-altering event that altered his view of the British. The battle was led by major general Braddock, a man who lack all the means to be a good and effective leader, discipline. This obese and lazy general caused 70% of his men, British and colonists, to be slaughtered or wounded in a humiliating defeat. Washington himself said that they had been," scandalously beaten" this event forever changing how he viewed what he had been taught to see as the all-powerful British. To make matters worse for the Americans Pitt, a powerful minister in George's cabinet, decided that the war between the French and British should be taken to American soil, where they had nothing and shouldn't have anything to do with the war. They were a group of people who blindly followed the motherland, whom they thought could do no wrong, into a war that would only bring them a national debt that the British expected the Americans to help pay. The Americans knowing nothing of what this war would bring them, saw this as an opportunity for the British to see them as equals, this idea would prove to not be as accurate as they had