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The French and Indian War played a major role in the beginning for American independence. During the war, the French, Spanish, and the British fough over the North American territory. The Americans formed a bad image of the British, developed a military experience, and feelings for American independence, through the French and Indian Wars; they began to move towards a revolutionary war.

The British made a bad taste in the mouths of their American colonists. They passed higher taxes to pay for the French and Indian War. The colonists were not happy because they were paying for a war that they did not start and did not want to pay for. They were kind of signed up for a war. Great Britain passed the Molasses act which prohibited selling products to anyone but British merchants. So, the colonists resorted to smuggling. The Proclamation of 1763 also upset the colonists. It was won in a war that they fought in, they payed for, and that their country had the right to, but they could not settle in it.

To anger the colonists even farther, the British military would not promote colonists, any higher than a captain. They could be the best military leader since sliced bread and still only aspire to be a captain. By being apart of the military, the colonists learned how to orginize men into an army. They learned the skills of garilla warfare because the indians used it against the British. Since the British were not very good at defending against garilla warfare, they learned a weaknesses of the British army.

When the war was over, the Americans dispised the English men who they were supposedly equals too. The military aspects and the bad views of the British peoples added to the colonial feelings for independence. The colonies no longer had to fear the French and the Spanish attacking them. They did not have the need for a British precence in their colonies.

The American people were sick of an over protective mother who put to many rules in place for them. They had a very strong and compulsive desire for independence and freedom. The stage is now set and complete for the American Revolution. By letting the American colonies form a bad relationship with them, gain military experience, and develope feelings for American independence, the British helped begin the American Revolution through the French and Indian Wars.