Analyze+the+role+the+French+and+Indian+War+played+in+the+American+Revolution.cs

In 1754, the French and British began a series of wars in North America that grew to become a world war, later called the seven-years war. The French and Indian War was a catalyst to the American Revolution because of the one unified force, the tensions between the UK and the colonies, and experience in war. In earlier colonial wars, the colonists couldn't pull together and create a union. With the war already underway in North America, the colonists had to get into action. Benjamin Franklin had created a cartoon earlier that represented all of the colonies in a separated snake and saying "Join, or die." This cartoon showed how separate the colonies actually were. They soon had a meeting with the delegates from the colonies and everyone agreed on having a union, except that the British didn't agree because it gave the colonists too much freedom. When the colonists had to pull together to hold off the French before the overseas militia came, they became a union and brought the colonies closer together. As the war started, the tension between the UK and the colonists grew. Britain attempted to control the colonists, while the colonists were reluctant to everything. Colonists who shipped goods, developed a trade with the French West Indies. The British, at the time, were trying to starve them with the use of the British navy. With the colonists shipping them food, the British were not successful. Finally, the British resorted to stopping all shipment out of the colonies. Still other colonists were refusing to pay money for support of their troops and the conflict as a whole.