The French and Indian War caused the American colonies to become more unified as Americans and more distant from Britain, due to differing political, economic, and ideological relations after the war. Throughout the war the colonists wanted to head west to get away form British control. After the war Britain started reducing salutary neglect and started imposing more taxes. The colonists are resistant to this. On the other side
             many people praised Britain for their actions in the war.
             Before the French and Indian war North America was dominated by the French and English, but after the war it was dominated by the English and Spanish. (Document A) In 1755 George Washington was loyal to Britain, he showed the first signs of colonial leadership. The Ohio River Valley was a place of contention between the French and the British. George Washington went to the French Fort Duquesne to try to defeat the French. Later in 1763 the Treaty of Paris was made which took French power off of North America. Stated in a soldiers diary from Massachusetts during the war, the colonial soldiers were being treated poorly. The soldier is comparing the colonial soldiers to the British soldiers which he calls slaves.
             There was much tension between the colonists and the Indians before the war. (Document B) The colonists were moving west to escape British control. The Indians didn't like this because they felt that the colonists did not use the land the way it was supposed to be used. After the war the economic relation between Britain and the colonies was very unstable. Britain arranged many taxes on the colonies which were unaccepted by the colonists. Britain imposed these taxes in order to pay for the war. In 1763 a British order in council proclaimed that Britain needed to stop practicing salutary neglect because they were not receiving the money they needed, due to smuggling and fraud. In a letter from Ben Franklin written to John Hughs, Frank...