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Review Of The French And Indian War By Fred Anderson

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This book was a first option because of its possible credibility and it really came out to be a book that helps understand the topic. To what the book I known for it is very much a book exactly for what t will be used. The book was made to accompany a four-part documentary about the same topic aired on PBS, but the book is enough to obtain the information that is needed to become a type of expert in the topic with details, facts, and great writing that gives the matter a noteworthy prospective and style.
The French and Indian War is, as the title says, what made the United States. The book by Fred Anderson gives a thorough description of what was happening in the Seven Years War and the fact that the revolution was up and coming. Anderson …show more content…

The War That Made America presents exactly how events adamantly played to have people who were proud of having British descendance to ultimately revolt and want independence. The demands of some British authorities such as Braddock. These demands were such as the asking of the colonies to give up men for their military, supplies, guns and ammo as well. All these things were used to fight against the French and its Indian Allies, but after everything about the fighting is done there is a debt that is left with the end of the war. For the Crown, easy make the colonies pay it, but the colonies do not want those types of debts for something that is not their responsibility. The British expected the colonies to pay for that debt that came after the war accordingly the colonies did not want to do that but they were forced once the British used taxes as a way to pay those debts off. With those demands came growing tensions between the Crown and the colonies came because of this justifying the American Revolution. That gave Fred Anderson a topic that is overlooked by many because of the fact that the colonies were treated unjustly. The Treaty of Paris as well mentioned in the book is part of what the colonies saw as wrong because its what settled disputes with the French and left the owed money for them to pay all eventually going to the French. Another point in the …show more content…

With the research, it has it is a book that gives everything you need to know of the French and Indian War. From the beginning of the war, to most importantly, the Treaty of Paris and Resolution. It gives you exactly what anyone needs to know if the topic is that of the book. It is really a book that brings the time period to life by giving a fluid, energetic, and gripping book to read about his research and what was happening. Anderson puts his best work into this book by giving the best possible information on this

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