Firstly, the war had been enormously expensive. The British government’s attempts to impose taxes on colonists to help cover these expenses resulted in increasing colonial resentment of British attempts to expand authority in the colonies. Secondly, British attempts to limit western expansion by colonists further angered the colonists. American colonists wanted to expand west to access more natural resources, which they saw as an economic opportunity. The British were concerned that westward expansion would result in another expensive Indian war. These disputes would ultimately spur colonial rebellion that eventually developed into a full-scale war for independence. Office of the Historian, United States of America Department of State (2014)

9. All of the following statements support the American colonists’ point of view about the French and Indian War except
A. The British had been fighting the French prior to the French and Indian War, so the colonists should not be required to pay for it.
B. The taxation on the colonists was not fair since the colonists had no representation in Parliament.
C. The limitations on the expansion of the colonies hurt the colonial farmers and settlers since they
could not expand to the west.
D. The British government had a right to place strict limitations on the colonists since they supported
and owned the colonies.