MS. SUE PLEASE HELP ME! SOCIAL STUDIES QUESTION?

Question

So I am trying to write two articles and am NOT asking you to write them for me, just for help so I can write them. It's about the French and Indian war.

I know that they were fighting and why, but what caused both of them to get into the war? Like I need to write two articles supporting either side but I want to know what each sides motives and intentions were, Why did they both want the land and what were their motives? Please please help.

Answer 1

The short article in Wiki sums it up well. You have to view this "war" as part of the Seven Years War in Europe. It was an economic, religious, and competitive war between Britian, France, Spain, Portugal that involved different areas, including Canada and the Mississippi Valley. The only difference, to me, was that the in the America's the British colonists had a great religious fear of the Pope taking over their lives, many of these colonists had fled England for religious freedom reasons.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War

Answer 2

Don't let yourself be brainwashed! No matter what your teacher says, use Wikipedia. If you don't want to read the article, then don't! BUT ... go to the bottom of the Wiki article and check out all the external references and links. For an article like this, the references are priceless.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War