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The French and Indian War has changed the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. When the English debt lead to unfair taxation of the colonists, it had changed the way they felt about their country.
When the French and Indian War ended, the countries colonizing North America shifted. After 1763, English colonies led the new world into what it is now. This took a toll on the political relationship between Britain and the American colonists because it lead to the Proclamation of 1763. The Native Americans believed "they had no right to settle." Since it was their home to begin with. The Proclamation was Britain's idea of preventing further conflict. So to this, It made the colonists very angry for not having their right of freedom. Other political changes included Britain's abandonment of their salutary neglect policy. After the French and Indian War, England was left with the deep debt they had acquired during the previous years. In turn, they began to strictly regulate trade, and impose taxes on commonly used items. Although Britain attributed these changes to their "virtual increase in territory," the colonists were infuriated. They felt this was unjust taxation.
All this sudden taxation and regulation took a toll on the economic relationship between the colonists and their mother country. Prior to the French and Indian War, the Wool, Hat, and Iron Acts forced the Americans to ship their raw the material to Britain, only to later buy the finished products from them. However, with the heavy British taxation, mercantilism was soon abandoned when the colonists decided to fight back. The Stamp Act enraged many of the elite colonists, and as Benjamin Franklin states, they wanted to "get it repeal'd" (Doc D) as soon as possible. With boycotting as their weapon, they practiced non-importation and non-consumption, thus harming the economic relationship the between the two parties.
Although colonial ideological values toward Britain began to change during the war, the colonists' ability to go through with the boycotts proved they could unite to make change. All the taxation and regulation added to the resentment colonists already felt prior to the Proclamation of 1763. Also, the French and Indian War, helped American soldiers realize they had less liberty than Englishmen. A Massachusetts soldier wrote "we are debarred Englishmen's liberty." American resentment that arose during this period helped trigger colonial rebellion.
The French and Indian War is to blame for the American Revolution. Ideologically, it brought up colonial feelings of resentment toward Britain. It also changed the political relationship between England and its colonists because the English were forced to unfairly tax them due to their economical struggles. The colonists in turn, boycotted, thus further damaging their economic relationship with their mother country. So since the Wars’ ending, America was never the same.
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