Here’s a source that you may not have found: The Columbia Encyclopedia 6th edition: http://www.bartleby.com/65/fr/FrenchNI.html

Note the 3rd paragraph, which addresses your question directly.

Also, have you considered asking your local or school librarian for help?

Cheerio!

Jonathan Betz-Zall

Reference Librarian

Highline Community College

Des Moines, WA

1. The English wanted a payoff for all that money they laid out to protect colonists during the war. How to get tha money? Raise taxes and raise them where you can collect them, at the ports. 2. Dead Indians mean a safer frontier, Colonists would see their taxes going up, while they were no longer receiving the same level of services (protection from French and Indians.) The Colonists had short memories, like most publics. 3. Less Indians meant that the colonists were looking at the frontier. Less Frenchmen meant that English merchants were looking at grabbing a bigger cut of the fur trade with the Indians. So the the goals of the two groups were no longer the same, one would prevent the other. They might have been united in the war, but post war their fortunes were no longer in tandem. Now my answers may not fit your framework, but I see the Revolution as being first of all an economic and power struggle, as the ideologies of most Englishmen and Colonists were close to the same. The colonies might have had a higher percentage of radicals and the sons of quasi-exiles, but the divisions and opinions about things like political power and freedom weren’t that different from the same classes in England.

Hey it’s wilbur119 again. Well, I know that George Washington fought in this war, so that would be involved in political, as well as the Iroquois’ alliance with the French (I think?). Economically, this war was fought during the winter time, and it was a bad winter, so that probably had some effect. That’s still as much asI know, sorry