How did the French and Indian War become a source of conflict between the British and the colonies?
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1689—1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent. They were really campaigns in the worldwide struggle for empire and were roughly linked to wars of the European coalitions. At the time they were viewed in Europe as only an unimportant aspect of the struggle, and, although the stakes were Canada, the American West, and the West Indies, the fortunes of war in Europe had more effect in determining the winner than the fighting in the disputed territory itself.\n\nTo the settlers in America, however, the rivalry of the two powers was of immediate concern, for the fighting meant not only raids by the French or the British but also the horrors of tribal border warfare. The conflict may be looked on, from the American viewpoint, as a single war with interruptions. The ultimate aim–domination of the eastern part of the continent–was the same; and the methods–capture of the seaboard strongholds and the little Western forts and attacks on frontier settlements–were the same.\n\nThe wars helped to bring about important changes in the British colonies. In addition to the fact of their ocean-wide distance from the mother country, the colonies felt themselves less dependent militarily on the British by the end of the wars; they became most concerned with their own problems and put greater value on their own institutions. In other words, they began to think of themselves as American rather than British.\n\nUsing trading posts and forts, both the British and the French claimed the vast territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi river, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Ohio Country. \nBoth European countries ignored Native American claims to the land in order to pursue their beaver pelt economies. \nThe British colonists feared papal influence in North America (New France was administered by French governors and Roman Catholic hierarchy and missionaries such as Armand de La Richardie were active). For the predominantly Protestant British settlers, French control over North America could have represented a threat to their religious and other freedoms that were provided by English law.
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If you are talking about the American Revolution, then the answer is:\nWhen the white man finely suceded from the oppresion of the English, they stopped paying taxes (in the forms of tobacco, cotton, other materials).  The increase in product wealth encouraged the expansion to the west.  Whitie took over more and more land from the common Indian hunting grounds, forcing them to move westward.\n\nSonner than later they hit the west coast, and their wasn't anywhere left for the Indians other than the lands the white man didn't want.  It was normally very dry, poor soil, and lacked animals to hunt (since the white man slaughter the buffalos during this expansion).\n\nThe Indians were figuratively and literally raped by the white man.  But this probably would have happened regardless if the Americans lost the revolution too, since whiteman already brought guns to the new lands and had this advantage over the original inhabitants.
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i'm not quite sure what you mean, but america had the revolutionary war to break away from england. because england was basicaly trying to control them and make them pay so many different taxes that they hardly had enough money left for them selfes. also there was a law passed by england that said that they cant settle west of the applaction mouintains. and they had gained alot of land there by defeating the french in a war years before.
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The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and Great Britain and its colonies in British North America (later Canada) from 1812 to 1815 on land and sea. The war formally began on June 18, 1812, with a U.S. declaration of war.\n\nOverview\nThe war took place against the global backdrop of the long struggle between Britain, with a shifting series of European allies, and the French and European empire of Napoleon. In the first decade of the 1800s each side forbade neutral nations to trade with the other side, but only the British (with its dominant Royal Navy) could impose these restrictions upon a burgeoning American merchant marine which had begun to trade worldwide. In addition to their search for contraband, the British stopped American ships to remove sailors whom they regarded as British subjects and, always desperate for trained manpower in the long wars with France, pressed them into service in the Royal Navy. Some British captains were not careful to ensure that these seamen were in fact British rather than American citizens.\n\nThe United States and Britain came to the brink of war in 1807 when the British ship HMS Leopard stopped the American frigate USS Chesapeake just outside American territorial waters. When the American vessel refused to be inspected, the British fired into the frigate, boarded it and removed four seamen whom the British captain claimed to be deserters. Although the British apologized, they did not end their stop and search practices.\n\nThe Americans had hoped for a quick win in the war, since Britain was at war with France under Napoleon. British forces responded to the declaration by the capture of Fort Mackinac on July 17, after the US force under U.S. General William Hull had invaded Canada July 12 at Sandwich (now known as Windsor, Ontario). The British later captured Detroit after turning back an American invasion of Upper Canada in the summer of 1812. The United States defeated combined British and Native Americans armies with victories at the Battle of the Thames, in October 1813, and at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, in March 1814, but by this time, Britain had successfully concluded the Napoleonic wars and the British were finally able to divert more resources to North America.\n\nDespite several notable successes by U.S. frigates and the menace of American privateers to British trade, the Royal Navy established a strict blockade of American trade causing economic hardship. On land, the U.S. invasion of Canada was swiftly repulsed, and British forces counterattacked across the border, burning Washington, D.C., and occupying the territories that would later become the state of Maine. But the British counteroffensive was turned back at Lake Champlain, Baltimore, and New Orleans. The Treaty of Ghent (ratified in 1815) restored the status quo ante bellum --that is the exact geographical situation as before.\n\nOn the Great Lakes border, more than half of the British forces were made up of Canadian militia. Additionally, many North American Indian peoples had their own reasons for fighting alongside either the British or the Americans. In the Northwest Territory, the War was, in a sense, a continuation of Tecumseh's War after the Indian defeat at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 up to Battle of the Thames in 1813.\n\nSome histories refer to this war as the "War of 1812–14", using the date of the peace treaty as the ending date of the war.\n\n\n[edit] Origins\nMain article: Origins of the War of 1812\nThe main reasons for America declaring war on the British were:\n\nThe boarding of American ships by the Royal Navy to search for alleged deserters, and the forced impressment of American and naturalized American citizens as British seamen. \nThe trade embargoes by Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, which resulted in the seizure of hundreds of American merchant ships. \nAmerican Expansionists noticed that the Canadian colonies were only lightly defe
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There were Loyalists in the American Revolution, maybe 20% of the population. The British also tried to recruit the Indians during the war and turn them against the Americans. That's the only thing that would suggest there was any kind of civil war during the revolution. More detail on this website...
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I'm assuming that by "pilgrims" you mean the small group of English settlers who landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. The answer is, that mostly they were on pretty good terms with the Indians for quite a few years, but there were many other groups of English settlers who came to New England in the following years, and eventually in 1675 there was an out and out war between the settlers and indians and thousands were killed on each side. This is called King Phillip's War and you can easily get lots of info about it online.
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The Battle of Saratoga in September of 1777 was a major victory for the American forces and a turning point of the war.\n\nhttp://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/Saratoga.htm\n\nThe Battle of Saratoga in September and October 1777 was a decisive American victory that was to result in France entering the conflict on behalf of the Americans during the American Revolutionary War.\n\nThe capture of an entire British Army secured the northern American states from further attacks out of Canada and prevented New England from being isolated. It emboldened France to join the war on behalf of the Americans.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saratoga
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the UK and France fought for many years.
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When the U.S. solicited help from France to win the Revolutionary War.
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The British invaded during the War of 1812.  Freedom was earned during the Revolutionary War, 1776-1783, from Britain.
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There really was not one battle that made the French enter the war on Americas side but rather it was the fact it was someone fighting against the British and holding their own and the fact that it was against the British that caused the French to fight against them.  The French and British had fought against eachother so often and the French lost most of the time was another factor.
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teh Iriqois Empire is the most powerful group of Indians during the Colonial Period. It is made of many different kinds of indian tribes. It affected the rise of the colonial society because they helped the colonists of America survive the land they live in: they showed them the geography, they traded with them, and other aids
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==============================================\nThe American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence,[1] was a war between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies, who declared their independence as the United States of America in 1776.\n\nThe war was the culmination of the American Revolution, a colonial struggle against political and economic policies of the British Empire. The war eventually widened far beyond British North America; many Native Americans also fought on both sides of the conflict.\n\nThroughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside (where most of the population lived) largely eluded them. After an American victory at Saratoga in 1777, France, Spain, and the Netherlands entered the war against Great Britain. French involvement proved decisive, with a naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at Yorktown in 1781. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized the independence of the United States.\n\n\n==============================================\n\nA GOOD ONE ABOUT  Revolutionary 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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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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Well he used to work for the british army,in the french and indian war, but he went to fight with the colonist in the revolutionary war becuase the british would not accept him as a commander becuase he was not from british lands the colonist recognized him and asked him to be a commander in their army. So he worked in the british army before he like did the war.
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From the American perspective, the New England states they wanted no part in the war at all. A town in Maine is reported to have bought gunpowder for its July 4th celebration from a supplier in New Brunswick, Canada. Likewise in Acadia they didn't want a war with the USA and kept up trade throughout the war.  \n     Now Quebec is a whole book so i'll be brief. The French called it an english war and wanted no part. When the British tried to draft soldiers in Quebec Riots broke out, people died, mayhem reigned. Many feel Quebec wanted the Americans to win. \n     Michigan was only a territory at the time, mostly farmers and fur traders who were mainly french canadian and traded with the native tribes. Washington was a world away. Many actually aided the British forces in the capture of Detroit. \n     Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky seemed to be the war mongering states. Simmering fueds between different tribes and new settlers created many "Indian Wars". These were a rough, tough breed of people always eager for a fight and a touch or three of the whiskey. Too bad no one told them it snows in Canada and they might want to bring a coat. \n     Upper Canada(Ontario) was primed and ready for the War. A Year before war was declared an alliance was formed between General Brock and Tecumseth's Northern Tribes Confederacy and they even discussed creating a Native state or country between Canada and the US. The residents of Ontario at the time were also largely "Loyalist" of British or Irish decent, or were former Americans who came north for free land grants who did not agree with the American ideals.