This then started the French and Indian War. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War gave its name to the whole series of wars because it was the last and most important conflict. ... The war ended with the defeat of the French and Indians in 1763. ... Though the war first occurred as a result of the French and Indian War, that occurred between 1754 to 1763. ...

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This then started the French and Indian War. ... Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War gave its name to the whole series of wars because it was the last and most important conflict. ... The war ended with the defeat of the French and Indians in 1763. ... Though the war first occurred as a result of the French and Indian War, that occurred between 1754 to 1763. ...

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Another major event that helped determine that American values were left untouched was the French Indian War. In essence, the French and Indian War altered the relationships between Britain and the American colonies. ... The French and Indian War was the first time that the colonist became united as a nation being able to fight a major power in the world and win. The sense of isolationism that was present in the decades before the French and Indian War showed American that they could things on their own with out having the mother country run their lives. Once the French and Indian war was ove...

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Conversely, the accomplishments and impact of the Dutch and French were not as prevailing. ... This allowed the government to give certain colonists Indians, if they tried to make them Christians. ... Many English settlers died of disease and malnutrition, but things began to improve with the introduction of tobacco from the Indians. ... The success of the French can not be ignored. They were profitable fur traders with the Native American tribes, and militarily, they engaged in several wars with the Iroquois. ...

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Before the American Revolution, the American colonists and the British army fought together in the French and Indian War. ... "[King George III, pg. 2] This brought specific harm to the colonists, because their reason for fighting in the French and Indian war was to win land. ... The Americans had fought hard in the French and Indian War, and they now saw what they believed to be rightfully theirs, given to the former enemy as an affront. ... The French now had the same resources and profitable goods that the colonies had, the Americans now had to compete for customers with France. The Pr...

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The American colonists and the British had just defeated the French in the middle of the 1700s in the French and Indian war. ... Although the colonist participation was held to a minimum, they had learned a powerful lesson from the French and Indian War. ... The basis for the Civil War was economic "slavery. ... Violence was justified in both wars. ... In the case of the Civil War, violence was justified to end a cruel institution. ...

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Their harsh taxes and powerful authority over the American colonists triggered the revolutionary war. ... The Revolutionary war fought from 1775-1783 was the War for Independence from the British Empire leaving the 13 colonies to be an independent nation and become the United States. ... The French and Indian War also known, as the Seven Years War in Europe was a huge conflict between England and France and their Indian allies. ... There were several reasons for this, one being that the Indians still posed a threat to the British government and the other being that the French and Indian War wh...

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In the spring of 1754, war broke out between the British and French in America. Franklin thought the colonies needed to unite for self-defense against the French and Indians. ... He said, above all, the British must avoid a surprise attack by the French and Indians. ... As a result, the French and Indians ambushed the British. ... With this in mind, in the fall of 1776, he was sent to France to try to talk the French into entering the war on America's side. ...

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The American colonists and the British had just defeated the French in the middle of the 1700s in the French and Indian war. ... Although the colonist participation was held to a minimum, they had learned a powerful lesson from the French and Indian War. ... The basis for the Civil War was economic "slavery. ... Violence was justified in both wars. ... In the case of the Civil War, violence was justified to end a cruel institution. ...

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Settlers from Spain, France, Sweden, Holland, and England claimed land beginning in the 17th century. ... Many wars were fought in the 1600s and 1700s. Soon, the two countries with the largest presence were England and France. The two nations fought for control of North America in what Americans call the French and Indian War (1754-1763). England won the war and got control of Canada, as well as keeping control of all the English colonies. ...

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In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in Europe as the Seven Years War, (1754-1763) and the aftermath. The French and Indian war took place in America. The French and their Indian allies fought the Americans and British soldiers for control of the Ohio Valley in order to gain access to the, very lucrative, Mississippi river. ... Slowly they took control over the war and forced...

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Gibson, The American Indian, p.9). ... They sang war songs and teased and taunted their captives in order to show that their bodies can be broken in many ways. Among the plains Indians the women were considered superior. ... In colonies such as New France, where European men lived in close contact with large numbers of Native Americans, sexual liaisons between white men and Indian women were common. ... Catholic priests and nuns in New France and New Spain pressed Indian women and men to convert to Christianity (the Protestants of English America were less energetic in this regard), enforci...

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The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. ... But the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. ... The war had an equally profound but very different effect on the American colonists. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... The French were defeated, Indians were at peace. ...

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The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. ... But the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. ... The war had an equally profound but very different effect on the American colonists. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... The French were defeated, Indians were at peace. ...

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We will look at the French and Indian war also known as the 7 year war, and the American involvement in the war to help England beat the French. ... Know during and after the war the deterioration in the relationship between England and America was seen when provincial solider and British Solider could not get along with each other. The Americans would think that the British were immoral, profane men, in which these men had to be controlled with brutal discipline.# Later on after the war Britain would still command post in the New World and would then send even more soldiers to America, which ...

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The Seven Years War between Great Britain and France and its subsequent acts had a substantial impact on British-American relations once the war was over. When France ceded Canada and the Ohio River Valley to Great Britain, the British announced the Proclamation of 1763, "to prevent the colonists from rushing into territories vacated by the French and provoking conflict with the Indians",[Dig141]. ... More turmoil arose from the Seven Years War when England passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act in consecutive years. ... Great Britain was suffering from huge war debts and thus taxed ...

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There wont be a lot on the war, but more on the causes. ... There were some conflicts with Indian-Americans and British. ... There were the French and Spanish that were always a risk. ... Colonies had to have some kind of army, militiamen, minutemen, and congressional army, to protect the territory from attacks from Indians or any other aggressors. ... The Revolutionary War started in 1777 and was won by the colonies with the help of French, and gaining its independence in 1783. ...

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After winning the French and Indian war, Britain felt it had the right to start controlling the colonies. ... This drawn document was not designed to oppress the colonials, but to work out the Indian problems fairly and prevent a repetition of something similar to the uprising of the Pontiac's. ... After the French and Indian war, the British government was in dept. ... It was not their war for empire, why should they be obliged to pay for Great Britain's war against their own enemy? ... It banned importation of rum and French wines. ...

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However it was the larger of many little things that led up to the revolutionary war. ... Then somewhere near one hundred men known as the Sons of Liberty would board the ship disguised as Indians. ... It also gave the Roman Catholics in the province religious liberty as well as the protection of French and English law. ... The war had now begun. This was the war to end colonialism, also known as the Revolutionary War. ...

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Indian communities were harassed for greater yields of tribute. ... The economic causes of the wars for independence are very similar. ... "To the American colonists, the result of the Seven Year's War (French and Indian War) represented the triumph of Protestantism, free government, and liberty; "the expansion of the frontiers of freedom" (Miller 48). Instead, Britain tightened control over its colonies after the war. ... The legitimacy of royal authority was eroded by the Bourbon reforms "in the eyes of sections of the Church, the Indians and the common people" "(Williamson 204). ...

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The first English colonists "homogeneous as they were "still had to learn to coexist with the Indians in the feral American wilderness. ... From 1680-1770, the overall east coast Indian population declined 50-75%, with many tribes disappearing altogether. While Africans and Indians had different fates (the Africans continued to exist "albeit enslaved "while the Indians died out), their mistreatment at the hands of the European settlers stemmed from a single phenomenon "ethnocentrism. ... Similarly, the Indians were seen only as sources of trade, and as useful allies...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... Washington, a Tidewater planter, was also an experienced soldier and surveyor, serving with distinction under Edward Braddock in the French and Indian War. ... His correspondence is rich with description of Washington, the war, and the meaning of life. ... The second section of the book, "The Fateful Summer," describes the movement of the war southward from Boston to New York, where the British and the Americans fought for cont...

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From the colonies being exploited economically by the British Empire to pay off its war debts, the British imposing more and more regulations on the colonies, to the ever diminishing, self-governance of the colonies. ... The road to revolution began with the ending of the French and Indian war. After the war, the British Empire had incurred massive debts and saw the colonies as a perfect way to pay them off. ... While this did upset the colonies, this was far from war starting. ... Because of the king squashing the rights the colonists believed they had, as well as inflicting them with tax aft...

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Without the Revolution America would not be the country it is today, it was one of the most influential wars of all times. Without the war America may have had, to this day, to pay taxes to the British Parliament and exist under their rule. ... After the French and Indian war Britain imposed taxes on its American colonies, without the peoples consent, because the colonies were in debt and Britain needed to regain the revenue. ... And so the American Revolutionary war began in 1775. ... The war was brutal and bloody and there were more than three times as many casualties as there were in ...

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By doing so, the growing American economy was greatly damaged, especially after the French and Indian War during which thousands of new colonists came due to the abundance of jobs but when the war was over, there were thousands of people poor and hungry (Zinn 60). ...

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