How Did The French And Indian War Cause The American Revolution

During the time of the settlements in the New World, France was the latest country to begin to settle in North America. This gap between the British and Spaniards arriving and the French arriving gave them the opportunity to explore and claim more land before the French had even come to America. Also during the time that the French ventured over the seas their country was in turmoil. The French settlers also had few reasons to wish to travel to the colonies. Their colonial government was directly ruled by the King and the colonists gained neither personal representation nor trial by jury. Also the French never had the same interests as the Spanish and the British did. The French were mainly interested in trade while the British wanted land and power and the Spaniards wished to spread Catholicism. …show more content…
After the French and Indian war the colonist realized that they wanted freedom. Before the war the New World colonists were poorly treated by British soldiers and they were restricted to rise against the militia. After the war the British king took away what the colonist had fought for with their own blood and they wished for the freedom they had during the war. The colonists wanted to travel over the Appalachian mountains and the London government prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachians in its proclamation of 1763. The colonists were outraged by this and they felt that they deserved the land because it is what they had been fighting for. The colonists had no desire to be restrained by the British government who had so blatantly ignored them for so long but then believed they had the right to control the colonists. Thus setting up for the American