The French and Indian War, also known as The Seven Year War, was a pivotal point European occupation of North America. The war ended with the British and colonists victorious, eliminating all of the French colonies, and forever changing the relationship between the American colonies and Great Britain. These alterations include changes in political, economic, and ideological relationships. The war left Great Britain with a great amount of debt, and land. The debt could only be resolved by taxes, and since the American colonists had never truly been taxed before the British Parliament saw it as a great idea. In 1763 during a British Order in Council it was said, "for maintaining these colonies requirers a large revenue to support it..." (Doc. F). The British were already down 140 million pounds and they could not afford to support the colonies without a way of
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Before England had all the land the French had there was not as large of a problem with the Indians because there was a certain border where the colonists could not pass. Now that the colonist's home country owned the lands they had the idea to move westward. As expressed by Canassatego, the Chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, "Your people daily settle on these Lands, and spoil our Hunting. We must insist on your Removing them, as you know they have no Rights to settle." (Doc.B). The Indians were not happy with the Americans so that caused the British to create a line that the colonists could not pass, making the colonists unhappy. Those colonists who fought alongside the British army also had their complaints. "And so now our time has come to an end according to enlistment, but we are not yet [allowed to go] home." (Doc. D). This was said in a Massachusetts soldier's diary who was unhappy with the commanding officers because he could not go home when his enlistment
Before England had all the land the French had there was not as large of a problem with the Indians because there was a certain border where the colonists could not pass. Now that the colonist's home country owned the lands they had the idea to move westward. As expressed by Canassatego, the Chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, "Your people daily settle on these Lands, and spoil our Hunting. We must insist on your Removing them, as you know they have no Rights to settle." (Doc.B). The Indians were not happy with the Americans so that caused the British to create a line that the colonists could not pass, making the colonists unhappy. Those colonists who fought alongside the British army also had their complaints. "And so now our time has come to an end according to enlistment, but we are not yet [allowed to go] home." (Doc. D). This was said in a Massachusetts soldier's diary who was unhappy with the commanding officers because he could not go home when his enlistment