Why was there a rivalry between the British and the Fench colonists?
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yes there was\nthe war was called the frencha nd indian war.\nduh
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From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre\nThe Boston Massacre is the name commonly given to the shooting of five civilians by British troops on March 5, 1770, which became a cause celebre among pro-independence groups and helped to eventually spark the American Revolutionary War. Colonists were already resenting the Townshend Acts. Tensions caused by the heavy military presence in Boston led to brawls between soldiers and civilians, and eventually to troops shooting their muskets into a riotous crowd.\n\nThe incident began on King Street when a young wigmaker's apprentice named Edward Garrick called out to a British officer, Captain John Goldfinch, that he was late paying his barber's bill. Goldfinch had in fact settled his account that day but did not reply to the boy. When Garrick remained quite vocal in his complaints an hour later, the British sentry outside the customs house, Private Hugh White, called the boy over and clubbed him on the head. Garrick's companions yelled at the sentry, and a British sergeant chased them away.[2] The apprentices returned with more locals, shouting insults at the sentry and throwing snowballs and litter.\nThis chromolithograph by John Bufford prominently features a black man believed to be Crispus Attucks.\nEnlarge\nThis chromolithograph by John Bufford prominently features a black man believed to be Crispus Attucks.\n\nWhite sent a messenger to the Main Guard for reinforcements. The Officer of the Day, Captain Thomas Preston, dispatched a corporal and six privates, all grenadiers of the 29th Regiment of Foot, and followed soon after. The mob grew in size and continued throwing stones, sticks, and chunks of ice. A group of sailors and dockworkers came carrying large sticks of firewood and pushed to the front of the crowd, directly confronting the soldiers. As bells rang in the surrounding steeples, the crowd of Bostonians grew larger and more threatening.\n\nIn the midst of the commotion, Private Hugh Montgomery was struck down onto the ground by a thrown club. He fired his musket into the air and—as he later admitted to one of his defense attorneys—yelled "Fire!" All but one of the other soldiers shot their weapons into the crowd. Three Americans—ropemaker Samuel Gray, mariner James Caldwell, and a multiracial sailor, Crispus Attucks—died instantly. Seventeen-year-old Samuel Maverick, struck by a ricocheting musket ball at the back of the crowd, died the next day. Thirty-year-old Irish immigrant Patrick Carr died two weeks later. Six more men were injured. To keep the peace, the next day royal authorities agreed to remove all troops from the center of town to a fort on Castle Island in Boston Harbor.\n\nSee other links below
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Whole books about this stuff...In a nut shell...\nNatives and Africans fought on both sides of the Revolution to further their own interests.  Native Americans were the dominant military presence west of the Appalachian Mountains and they fought alongside the English.  They believed the English were their beat hope of keeping American settlers from pouring over the mountains and pushing them off their land.\n\nThere were many tribes, some traditional enemies, and that further complicated their response to the war between American Colonists and the English,\n  Africans and African Americans (remember, at this time the African slave trade was very much alive - not all African slaves were native born) fought for the colonies, and fought well, as free men and on behalf of their masters.  At one point, the British promised freedom to any male slave (and his family) if he escaped and joined the British Army.  Many did.  Others took advantage of masters and overseers' absence to escape from slavery.\n\nJust remember this - no group of people ever acted uniformly.  People act in their own interests.
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One of the big issues leading up to the war was trade.  At that time, the Southern colonies had a huge market with the British, exporting raw materials to England to be made into finished products (if not sending their products to the northern factories).  A lot of the taxes were levied for imports and exports (which would make sense because the ports were in the northern colonies).  Isn't it odd that southerners love tea and northerners drink lots of coffee?  Some think that the reason Americans love coffee so much, is because we were trying to get away from the British tradition of drinking tea...
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Well, they were on the same side in World War I and II.  France and Britain have often been on the same side - united against a common enemy e.g. Spain.  Sorry, can't help with the American Revolutionary War.
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Overall this war was casued due to the economic policies of the British Empire.  \n\nThere are also political causes such as the feelings of a lack of political representation within the English Empire, which then resulted in the above said economic policies.  This argument would be disputed by historical materialists.
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The steps leading up to the war and their consequences are as follows:\n1. Proclomation of 1763 which prohibited the colonist from living west of the Appalachian Mts.-made the colonist mad and many disregarded the proclomation.\n2. Britain raising taxes on the colonist to help defray the costs of the French and Indian War-the colonist protested and refused to pay the taxes.\n3. Boston Massacre in 1770 which was used as American propoganda against the British when in fact it was a large crowd threatening a small group of British soldiers who either fired accidently or out of fear for their lives\n4. Quartering of British soldiers in colonists homes-caused great resentment against the British.\n5. Boston Tea Party in which colonist threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest the monopoly given the British East India Trading Company causing the British to pass the Coercive Acts which severly punished Boston.\n6.  To show support for the Mass. colony all of the colonies except one met at the first Continental Congress and authorized colonies to raise militias, and to boycott British tea.\n7. Lexington and Concord April 1775-British troops attempted to capture Sam Adams and a store of arms and powder at Concord, Mass.  The British were met at Lexington, Mass. on April 19th by a small group of "minute men", resulting in the death of several colonist.\n8. Second Continental Congress-creates an army and names George Washington as commander.\n9. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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OK, well Columbus wasn't working for the British, look that up on wiki if you don't know that.  secondly with the help of the French we kicks some British ass, look up American revolution on wiki
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Nice joke, it never gets old pinging on the french. Polisci the french didn't really want to help the colonies they just hated the Brits but couldn't declare war on them due to lack of political correctness however they did have a considerable stake in the new world. Thus, having the colonies write the declaration of independence they could legitimize coming to the aid of a sovereign nation, furthermore protecting their stake. Free colonies would put a sizable gap (landwise) between britain and the french claim. Thereby using us as shields for their land knowing that britain wouldn't have the strength to fight through the americans and be able to maintain the battle when they reached french lands. If the colonies stayed british then the french would have had a larger problem given that the brits are next door. hurray for the brave french.\nDane the french paid such a high price due to fact they were invaded and occupied, not because of galiant heroldry. The brits suffered heavily from V1 and V2 rockets along with bombing runs. At least the brits mounted a useful defense.
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Canada was invaded during the American Revolution, and the War of 1812.  There was also fighting going on in Canada during the French and Indian War.
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The French-Indian War, was not the French fighting the Indians. The French joined the Indians in fighting  Americans, in the hopes of gaining American territory for France. France has always been a pain in the side of the U.S. Yes, the Statue of Liberty was a trick.
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The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies in North America. The war began largely as a colonial revolt against the economic policies of the British Empire, and eventually widened far beyond British North America, with France, Spain, and the Netherlands entering the war against Great Britain. Additionally, many American Indians fought on both sides of the conflict.\n\nThroughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture colonial coastal cities, but control of the countryside largely eluded them. French involvement proved decisive, with a naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized the independence of the United States of America. Because a great number of colonists fled the thirteen colonies and settled in the north, the war also paved the way for the eventual creation of what would become Canada.
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do you mean the 'American Revolution'?\n\nwell the first reason is the Quartering Act. the quartering act is an act that made colonists quarter, or house, british soldiers in their homes.\n\nanother reason is the Proclamation (think mispell) of 1763. it prevented colonists from moving wesword past the appalation mountains. it violated their rights as britians.\n\nTHe third reason is the Sugar Act. THe sugar act is simply a tax on sugar, molasses (which is syurp) and other sugar products. this angered the colonists because colonists loved to drink tea with sugar. \n\nThe fourth reason is the Stamp Act. THe stamp act is a replacement for the Sugar Act. I am unshure about when the stamp act was repealed, though. the stamp act is a tax on legal documents, stamps, even playing cards, etc. (pretty much any product that has paper in/on/ or is paper\n\nThe townshed act is another reason. i dont know what it exactly did, but it isnt a tax. i think it was a limit on what the things that colonists can do.\n\nThe Blockade of Boston Harbor is another reason. it was a wall of ships that blocked ships (mainly ships that carryed imports) from coming into the colonists.\n\nthere are many other reasons why, but these are main reasons
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Actually it's the Revolutionary war.\n\n1. We hated the English. Mostly because the taxed us without representation.\n\n2. We signed the declaration of independence.\n\n3. We kicked their butts.\n\n4. They surrendered in Yorktown, VA.\n\n5. We kissed and made up and now we are friends.\n\nThat's about it.\n\nHint: look up revolutionary war or american revolution and you will find more stuff than you could ever use.
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The British hired Hessian (German) mercenary troops to fight the Colonists in the Revolutionary War.  Oops, that was before the USA was the USA.  America entered the War to end all Wars in 1918, but many Americans enlisted in the Canadian armed forces to fight the Kaiser before the US officially declared war on Germany after the Lusitania was sunk.
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there where simply four reasons\n1.the connection between colonies and Britain was very costly cause some colonies were thousands of miles away from Britain\n2.people started fearing a self government emerging\n3.the colonies themselves started to chafe against British rule and started to want to deal with there affairs alone.\n4.Finlay many Britons realized that the empire had become unwieldy and that relationships within it were a handcart rather than a gain
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after america beat england in the revolution, britian still had troops in america so the war was to have full rights to their land and get rid of the last of britians influence.