...between the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812 Name Institution Comparison between the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812 Wars are a major part of history today, just like before. Wars have been used to show strength and domination in the past. In America for example, three of the most notable wars include the French and Indian war, the war of 1812 and the American Revolution. These are some of the wars that involved European nations in American soil and the struggle for ownership of the American continent. In this essay, the focus will be on the comparison between the wars mentioned. In my opinion, the wars were all part of a sequence of events that lead to the development of the United States of America as a nation. The French and Indian war was the earliest of the three wars. It happened between the year 1756 and 1763 (Boot, 2014). It, therefore, took seven years for the war to end. Participants in the war were majorly the French on one side and the British on another side. The British outnumbered the French, and, therefore, the French depended on the help of the Indian natives of America to fight the British. For that reason, and considering that King George had been involved in another war in the 1940s, it was named by the opponents of the British who were the French in collaboration with the Indians. The war was also called the North American Theatre of the Seven Years War between France and Britain (Boot...
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...trade fur. At about the same period, the British were settling their colonies in the thirteen colonies. In 1670, the English started involving in fur trade in Upper Canada and established the Hudson’s Bay Company but in 1682, the French attacked the Hudson’s Bay Company and took control of it until 1714. In the Treaty of Utrecht, the British took over of Acadia and Acadians were asked to take oath of allegiance to English king but they refused to sign the unconditional oath of allegiance to the English king. By 1755, the British decided...
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...The purpose of these various taxes were to pay for “defending, protecting, and securing” the colonies (Boyer 134). The first major tax in America was the Stamp Act. The Act required the purchase of specially stamped paper for any type of legal forms, licenses, documents, or newspapers. This was especially maddening to the colonists because nearly everyone was affected by it (Boyer 135). So much so that, in 1765, a Stamp Act Congress was formed that represented nine of the thirteen colonies. It was decided that Parliament was overstepping its’ bounds in issuing the Stamp Act and the colonies began boycotting British goods. The colonists got what they wanted when Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 (Boyer 138). In the wake of the Stamp Act and the events surrounding it, many people turned to enlightenment thinkers and religion for answers which ultimately led them to rethink the imperial relationship between the colonies and Britain (Boyer 139). As time went on and tensions grew, Parliament started to tighten its grip on the colonies. When the Tea Act was passed in 1773, it required that the colonists only buy British tea that was low quality and over-priced. The colonists refused to buy any of it and it remained on the ships of various North American (Boyer 151). A group of colonists took it a step...
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...The French and Indian War was a key factor in sparking the American Revolution. It set the stage for the colonial rebellion. There were also occurrences during the war and after that further impacted the resolution of the American colonies to revolt. The Revolution didn’t happen in a day; it was the result of numerous events that gradually caused the colonists to be more and more indignant towards British rule. The French and Indian War-also called the Seven Years’ War-started in 1756 and ended in 1763. Even though the British were victorious, gaining a large amount of territory, their triumph increased trouble with the thirteen colonies. The war expenses were enormous, and so Great Britain endeavored to impose taxes upon the colonists. The Sugar Act, Revenue Act, and the Stamp Act were put into effect. This only succeeded in intensifying the colonist’s resentment towards the British attempts to make larger their imperial authority. The subjects in the American colonies had become accustomed to running their own affairs, thus they were getting ever more impatient....
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...When thinking about the causes of the American Revolution, many tend to primarily list events that happened just before 1776: taxation without representation, the boycotts of British goods, and the Boston Tea Party, as examples. But the tensions that led the American colonists to wage war against Britain had existed over a century before the first battles and involved a series of different gripes with the government besides taxation. Over the course of a hundred years, the colonies grew distrustful and disdainful towards their government, and increasing violence in the 1770s finally led to the Revolutionary War. Many people erroneously believe that the causes for the American Revolution stem from the colonists having a different cultural identity than the British. American colonists in the 18th century saw themselves as English, not American, and emulated British clothing, architecture, and etiquette in a process called Anglicization. Furthermore, there was no united “American” identity between the thirteen colonies at the time. Each region “had developed...
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...The American Revolutionary War Consider the words of Thomas Pain when he wrote “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer solider and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrinks from the service of his country: but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” The Independence war all started because of tyranny and major British taxation. The Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the outcome of the war were just some the major stances colonists took to a take stand against Great Britain to make the 13 colonies independent. These are the words of a true patriot. He has risked his life to severe this country. He was one of many soldiers in the War of Independence. The Independence War...
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...Angela Cole HIST101 American History to 1877 Prof. Traci Sumner 13 November 2011 Cole 2 Just about everyone is familiar with the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence gave thirteen colonies freedom from England's laws. We as Americans celebrate this day every year, and July 4th is known as Independence Day. The purpose of the document was to announce the colonies' independence to the world and list the reasons why the American Revolutions was legitimate. By the time the Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain had been at war for more than a year. Relations between these two countries had been deteriorating since the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. Throughout history, there were very few documents that changed the way our nation views politics and carry on with our everyday lives. The Declaration of Independence changed the course of history by giving America freedom from Great Britain. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. One of the best known sentences in the English language comes from the Deceleration of Independence (Lucas). The passage has often been used to promote the rights of marginalized people throughout the world, and came to represent a moral standard...
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...Appendix B Causes of the Revolution Complete the grid by describing each pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. |Pre-War Event |Description |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | | |The war was battled among the colonies of British America and New France, with |The Americans helped the British and overcome the French with some Indian tribes. | |French and Indian War|both sides reinforced by armed units from their parent countries of Great |Nevertheless, the British began seriously taxing and modifying the American colonies | | |Britain and France, as well as Native American supporter. |after the War. The Americans were used to leading themselves. This began a twisting | | | |effect the British making more laws and the Americans causing more uprising that | | | |eventually led to the Revolution. | | |This put taxes on sugar and on molasses. The French and Indian War lead to this |Because of all the taxation it lead the colonist to revolt, which...
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...This convention is known as the first continental congress, and is the first trace of the formation of the United State’s congress. The convention elected president, Peyton Randolph, who was among the seven Virginia delegates. (ushistory.org) The representatives had a diverse ideas on how to approach matters at hand, and agreed a set of measures and principles, that demanded a response from the British king to address their grievances. The convention ended with a statement of unity and agreed to meet the following...
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...Seven Years’ War Paper Your Name Goes Here Axia College of the University of Phoenix Shauna Donovan HIS 115 Many factors led up to the Seven Years’ War and in this paper I will describe the social and political backgrounds existent in eighteenth-century America, explain how the diverse backgrounds and views led to the Seven Years’ War and explain how the outcome of the Seven Years’ War affected me and America. All of this will be explained as you read along in this paper. In the seventeenth-century before I was born, “the colonies were becoming overrun by various, very different immigrant groups” (Davidson, J., 2006). Famine, warfare, and religious persecution forced many non-English groups to flee their homes in Europe to the American colonies. This immigration quickly increased the population and made the colonies greatly diverse in backgrounds. This diversity in backgrounds caused the colonies to be divided along the cultural lines. The colonists divided themselves according to ethnic, regional, racial, and religious differences (Davidson, J., 2006). “Since many of these immigrants had no way to pay for their trip to America, they arrived in the colonies already signed into indentured servitude” (Davidson, J., 2006). The population increase had a significant impact on the lifestyle of colonists in the eighteenth-century. “At this time the birth rate also increased with women typically giving birth to between five and eight children” (Davidson, J., 2006)...
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...The original colonists settled in America to escape oppression due to their religion or political affiliation, therefore from the beginning, Americans were instilled with a desire for freedom and independence. However, in the beginning, the small colonies did need help form the British government to start up. Once they’d outgrown the crown however, it was that same sense of pride and identity, a drive for freedom that led the Thirteen Colonies to rebel against Britain, and it was that sense which allowed them to overcome all odds and eventually gain their independence. Though most colonists already had the desire for freedom within them, there were a number of events which pushed them closer to trying to gain that freedom, many of them...
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...grid by describing each pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. Pre-War Event Description Contribution to the Revolutionary War French and Indian War This is the name American gave this war; this war was between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. This war was also known as the seven year war, in Great Britain it was known as King William's War or Queen Anne's War. With the end of the French & Indian War in 1763, the British government felt that the American colonies should cover a percentage of the cost associated with their defense. So the Parliament began passing a series of taxes designed to raise funds to offset this expense. Sugar Act The Sugar Act was passed in 1764. The British placed a tax on sugar, wine, and other important things. The Parliament wanted the money to help provide more security for the colonies. The Sugar Act made the people in the colonies pretty upset. If they only traded with Britain, they would not be able to sell their goods for as much. Some leaders in the colonies started to boycott, or to quite buying, British goods. Stamp Act The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th and weeks later ordered in effect by the King. The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. They need to get some of their money back after the French and Indian War. The colonies boycotted the stamp act, so it...
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...upheaval by the thirteen American colonies. The thirteen colonies wanted to break away from the British government and form their own independent government. The American Revolutionary War was a result of the colonies being fed up with the laws being passed upon them and how they were being treated by the British government. There were many events that led up to the colonies wanting to break from the British government. Some of the events that led to this uprising, to only name a few, included The French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years’ War), the Boston Tea Party, and the Boston Massacre. There were also many individuals that helped cause the revolution and there were those that helped lead the colonists in their victorious separation from the British government. The French and Indian War was the start of the colonists beginning to become fed up with how the British government was governing them. The war resulted in the British gaining more land in North America, but it also resulted in the British government becoming more demanding and more controlling when it came to the American colonists and their lives (Hewitt and Lawson, 131). During this war, it did not look like the British were going to win. They lost many wars in North America. And when it looked like France would win this war, the British government put a new person in charge of their war efforts, William Pitt. Pitt placed more soldiers and more weapons in North America. With Pitt’s direction, the war began to turn...
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...Parliament versus the American Colonists Britain, along with its colonists fought in the Seven Years’ War against France in attempt to win over land in the colonies. The battle raged for seven years and ended with a peace treaty between the two forces with Britain reigning victor. At the end of the war, Britain’s national debt doubled from €72 million to €132 million, much less than the debt of the thirteen colonies (Boyer 129). In attempt to reestablish control over the colonies as well as repay their debts, Parliament enacted new laws in the colonies. Many colonists argued the laws were unfair and unjust so rebellions were commonly formed. American colonists’ resentment of Parliament grew as unfair laws were put in place following the 7 year’s war. The Quartering Acts, increase in violence, and the Intolerable Acts all drew a wedge between Parliament and the colonists....
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...The Boston Massacre was an event of great significance in American history, as it marked a turning point in the mounting tensions between American Colonists and British soldiers that eventually led to the Revolutionary War. On the fateful night of March 5, 1770, a tragic clash between British soldiers and a group of American Colonists in Boston, Massachusetts resulted in the loss of five civilian lives. This event served as a catalyst that further escalated disputes and tension between the two groups. However, despite the tragedy, the aftermath of the Boston Massacre set legal processes in motion that led to a transformation of the justice system in colonial America, leaving a lasting legacy that still resonates today. Following the Boston Massacre, a series of high-profile legal cases...
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