Anti-Revolutionary War: A Major Turning Point In American Relations With Britain

There are many great turning points in United States history from the earliest days of European exploration and the conquest of the New World to today. As the British and French were in a war throughout Europe the conflict eventually reached America and this became known as the Seven Years War. In the 1700s, the Seven Years War also known as the French and Indian war marked a major turning point in American relations with Great Britain. This ultimately marked a major changes because tension between Americans and Britain ended then led to the American Revolution. The British were victorians in their war against the French and the Indians who had sided with French. At the end of the war, France ceded all of its land in North America east of the Mississippi River to Britain. This meant that British had virtually complete control over North America. This was a major change for British …show more content…
After the war, British Parliament believed that Americans should help pay for the steep cost of the war. Americans however thought that they had done their part in helping with the war and were insulted by British demands. Americans became more irritated with the presence of British soldiers and began to view them as unwelcome. This anti-British sentiment would come to a breaking point later in American history with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and start of the Revolutionary War. The new found anti-British feelings shared by many colonists helped make the French and Indian War a turning point in British American relations because before the war, there was no presence of British troops nor major demands by Parliament for the colonies to assist the economic situation in Britain. After the war, this changed Americans noticed and the first rebellions mindsets toward Britain were