Question

What are two effects of the French and Indian war that escalated tension between the American colonists and British government?

Answer 1

ExplTo pay for the war, the British government imposed new taxes on the colonists. The colonists disliked these new taxes, especially because they did not have their own representatives in the British Parliament. Friction over these taxes eventually flamed into the American Revolution.

The French government also spent heavily on the war. The debts that the monarchy incurred fighting in this war weakened the king's position, making his absolute monarchy vulnerable to rebellions by the growing middle class. These tensions led to the French Revolution.

As English colonists began to flood into territories taken from France, they displaced the Native Americans