The Pivitol Effect of the French and Indian War on Great Britain and Its American Colonies

The French and Indian War helped to put an extensive strain on the relations of the powerful Great Britain and its loyal American Colonies. The war had put an exclusive strain greatly separating Britain and its colonies. The relations between Britain and its colonies deteriorated to a point of collapse. The French and Indian War had a significant history altering effect on Britain's political, economic, and ideological relationship with its American colonies.

Starting, Parliament's massive stubbornness on their political decisions for its colonies after the French and Indian War put an immense strained their political relations. British taxing policies, imposed on the colonies, was only slightly damaging to the colonies. The colonists were not all that concerned with the damage the taxes present, but instead worried themselves with how dangerously high they can become. The British Parliament taxed the colonies without giving them the type of influence that they wanted. The colonies wanted actual representation while Parliament believed in virtual representation. In other words the colonists wanted someone from the colonies to be in Parliament representing them, but Parliament was saying that they were a part of the massive British Empire and were already being represented by Parliament. Parliament, by refusing actual representation, agitated the colonist from passive to protesting against British detrimental taxes. The colonists began to feel like they did not have the full rights and liberties of Englishmen; instead they were feeling like isolated men from Britain. The King of England ignored the colonies immense cries for peace and called them all traitors to their legendary country. Also the colonists were being denied their own power to rule themselves and hold town meeting, but only being ruled by people across an enormous ocean. Parliament was profoundly worried that, if allowed to continue their town meetings, the colonists would become extremely aggressive against Britain. The colossal waning of the political relationship between Britain and its colonies was escalated after the French and Indian War.

Secondly, Britain and its colonies had several massive economic problems after the French and Indian War. The massive war debt from the Seven Years War caused Parliament to tax its American Colonies to pay off the extensive debt. The colonists knew that the taxes were necessary and were not worried about those taxes. What the colonists were worried about is that that if they did not get any say over the taxes how massive and damaging the taxes could get. In addition to the taxes, Parliament raised the substantial land price monumentally higher to try to stop colonial expansion. To make monumental problems even worse Parliament would not take colonial money, they would only take English money. The raw materials used in making up the money were dangerously low in America for the colonists to use as their currency. Parliament kept making things worse by monumentally restricting the colonists' trade partners. The economic relations