How did the Seven Years' War cause the American Revolutionary War?

Question

How did the Seven Years' War cause the American Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

After France's defeat from the British, France lost all its North American possessions to Britain. Now the British in order to protect the colonists from Indians that inhabitated the lands ceded by the French issued the Proclamation of 1763. This prohibited the colonist to settle to the Western Lands (ceded lands). The British did this because the Seven Years' War was very costly and they knew any altercation between the white colonists and the Indians would mean more expenses both in man power and money. However, the colonists felt that they were being robbed of their rights because they felt they had self-entitlement to settle in these "dangerous" lands since they were in fact part of the British colonies as of then.

This was another added reason for the growing resentment towards the British along with other Acts of Parliaments (e.g. Stamp Act), which ultimately resulted in to the Revolution.

Here is the map of the Proclamation of 1763  to help give you get an idea. The red is where the colonists were allowed to settle and the pink were off-limits. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Answer 2

the seven yeas war, or the French and Indian war, was mainly fought over the right for colonists to expand beyond the Appalachian mountains.

however at the end of the war, Great Britain was strapped for cash and could not support soldiers who would be needed to protect colonists from Indians beyond the Appalachians. because Great Britain could not finance the soldiers, it forbade American Colonists from expanding further west. also, people back in England did not want to pay off the war dept, incurred from the war with France, so the burden of the debt was left to the colonists. and thus brought the infamous taxation without representation.

Answer 3

The American front of the Seven Years War is known as the French and Indian war. During this conflict, American soldiers fought in militias alongside British regular troops. The British, over the course of the war, gained a very negative view of the American soldiers, seeing them as cowardly, backwards, undisciplined, unprofessional, and very bad soldiers. They definitely underestimated the Americans later on as a result of this.

Also, the French and Indian War led to the expulsion of the French from North America, but at a huge financial cost to the British. Before this, the British left the American colonies pretty much alone to tax and govern themselves, in what was called Salutary (or Benign) Neglect.However, the British believed  the war was fought primarily in defense of the American colonists, and so thought that the Americans should pay for it. They instituted the stamp tax, as well as a number of other taxes, that confirmed American suspicions that their consent was not considering necessary for taxation (taxation without representation), insulted the colonists (they felt that the British looked down on them), and made them more eager for rebellion.