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Pros And Cons Of The French And Indian War

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The French and Indian War brought about many positives for Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, including removing France as a threat to North America completely. However, this conflict proved to be wildly expensive for Britain, doubling the national debt. In order to begin cutting back on this debt, the British government began to pass acts that would start taxing the Colonies and controlling the trades in North America. As Americans began to feel the effects of these acts, they began to see the British as encroaching on the freedoms they sought when they traveled to the Colonies. Kim Klein begins her affirmative argument by stating that the policies imposed by the British Parliament did violate the rights of Americans. She argues that Americans believed that it was unreasonable for the British government to extract revenue by enforcing taxes on them …show more content…

Americans felt that they were not truly, properly represented in the British government and therefore could not verbalize their concerns or thoughts. While Klein’s perspective possesses a substantial argument, it cannot be ignored that the Colonists were able to evade British authority. With Klein’s argument in short, it is written that these policies set the foundation for Americans to solidly believe that the British were attempting to destroy the balance of the British constitution, subsequently leading to a breeding ground for tyranny in the Colonies. In a differing perspective, John D. Fair provides the argument that the Colonies were simply rebelling against a form of government that was considered to be the most tolerant and liberal of the time. He explains that the British Parliament was inspired by the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which built a sense of balance between the King, Lords, and Commons, a system that was deeply

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Additionally, the American colonists felt that the implemented taxes and laws were unjust. There were many unjust laws and taxes forced upon the colonies. In document two, the author states that Great Britain has the “legal authority to regulate the trade of Great Britain and all her colonies”. He believes that the raising revenue from the trade was never intended, and that the British Parliament never had the intention of implementing duties - duties before the Stamp Act - for the sake of raising revenue. However, the author felt that the Stamp Act and Townshend Act and the other acts from the Stamp Act onwards were unconstitutional.

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At the dawn of the 1770s, American colonial resentment of the British Parliament in London had been steadily increasing for some time. Retaliating in 1766, Parliament issued the Declaratory Act which repealed most taxes except issued a reinforcement of Parliament’s supremacy. In a fascinating exchange, we see that the Parliament identifies and responds to the colonists main claim; Parliament had no right to directly tax colonists who had no representation in Parliament itself. By asserting Parliamentary supremacy while simultaneously repealing the Stamp Act and scaling back the Sugar Act, Parliament essentially established the hill it would die on, that being its legitimacy. With the stage set for colonial conflict in the 1770s, all but one

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Between 1763 and 1775, there were three ‘Imperial Crises’ which occurred between the British and the American colonists. The conflict that was produced during this period arose through an undefined balance of political and economic power between the two parties. In 1763, Britain had just concluded the French and Indian war and was left with an immense and almost crippling debt of around 140 million pounds sterling (“Turning Point In American History”). In Britain’s eyes, the most effective way to reduce this debt was increased taxes. Unfortunately, the people of England were already massively overtaxed, which meant the last option for the British was to tax the American colonists.

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To remedy this situation, Great Britain determined that the American Colonies should be taxed as an instrument in dissolving the country’s debt. The American colonists, especially in the North, took great exception with this decision. This arbitrary, and ultimately Draconian, course of action would result in punitive

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The Britain felt that it was only natural that the American colony would pay the mother country more for their protection after the Seven Years War with France. England was trying to relieve some tax burdens by increasing the tax on the colonies (xix). “that the main purpose of country’s overseas possessions were to serve the business interest of British merchants and manufacturers and to provide the mother country with raw materials” (xvii). However, such increase in demand, and pressure seemed unfair to the American colony despite the fact that they had been paying less tax compared to an English

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Originally, the British had every right to tax or confine the colonists in any way they deemed necessary. As the mother country of the colonies, the English had total control over the colonists to do want they wanted with them even if it might not have benefited them. The colonists were the ones who wanted to revolt and the ones who had chosen to start fighting back, eventually forcing both sides to go to war. They boycotted the taxes by doing unreasonable things such as tar and feathering tax collectors (Hakim 61) and wasting tons of tea profits during the Boston Tea Party (History.com). If they had just chosen to be content with England and the way it ruled, the English would never have gotten angry with them and chosen to punish them in the first place.

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1. The French and Indian War, known as the Seven Years’ War, began in 1754 and came to an end with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Two European imperial powers, Great Britain and France, were at war over territory, trade routes and resources. The war began over a specific issue of whether the Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire or the French empire. This land made it greatly accessible for trade and settlement to either of the imperial powers. Behind the problem with the Ohio River valley territory, a much greater conflict arose, the question of which nation was going to dominate North America.

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The British were firm in their belief that the colonists should pay debt that resulted from the Seven Years’ war that lasted from 1754-63 because the British soldiers defended them during that war. As a result, British Parliament started to tax the colonies; however, before the taxes, the Proclamation of 1763 was put into effect. The British feared that western trade would be

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The French and Indian war transformed the communities of the British and its North American Colonies exceedingly at the hand of land acquisition concerning native alliances and settlements of the citizens, economics containing elements of navigation systems along with taxes, and ideological relations regarding loyalty versus disloyalty. Prior to the Seven Years’ War English colonies were located throughout the east coast, restricted by the Appalachian mountain range. Moving towards the North New France had dwelled who had aspired to control the Mississippi River as well as the lands between the river and the mountains to the east. The French preferred water ways that allowed access to the inland. The Iroquois were crucial allies to the French

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The French and Indian War of 1754 The war was started by the French and British on the same claims. Indians were crucial in the war they were allies to both sides of the war. The British were the strongest army in the entire world at the time but it wasn’t the easiest for Britain, their army was strong but it took them quite a while to defeat the french. The British won and kicked out the french from America permanently.

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During the Colonial Era (1492-1763), colonists were justified in waging war against Great Britain; due to the inequitable Stamp Act, the insufferable British oppression, and the perceived tyranny of King George III, the king of Great Britain, however, the colonists were unjustified in some of their actions. In Colonial America, colonists were justified in waging war against Great Britain, because the Stamp Act was unfair and viewed as punishment. Because of the war, Britain had no other choice but to tax the colonists to pay for the debt. For example, according to document 2, the author states that the act was not only for trade but for “the single purpose of levying money.”

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The French and Indian War The French and Indian War was fought over possession of land in North America. This war lasted seven years, 1756-1763, and is also called the Seven Years War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. Both colonies were backed with military units from their parent countries, Great Britain and France.

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After the French and Indian War the British were had a gargantuan debt! In order to pay off such a huge debt they imposed new taxes and enforced old ones. Great Britain thought that it was allowed to pass laws like these, because Britain had protected the colonists therefore the colonists have to give obedience. Laws like the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea Act, and along with the British being oblivious to colonists’ pleas to change the harsh laws (Document 2) allowed

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representation at all were contributing to the changing feeling among many. While there were plenty who were opposed to the policies in all the colonies, Americans disagreed about the “means, the methods and the ends to the opposition” (Jensen). In the 1760’s, Great Britain was at its pinnacle of world dominance while at the same time riddled with political instability due to incompetent politicians who were helping themselves to the deep pockets of the crown (Wood 175). These factors contributed to the near fatal bankruptcy of Britain on the edge of an abyss. These events continued to lead the colonies on a collision course for independence, with Britain instituting taxes and controlling interests and restrictions in the colonies.

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