the end

This is the last thing of AP summer work that I had to write, the conclusion to an essay about the French and Indian Wars. It is, if I do say so myself, stellar.

The colonists in America were initially quite wary of fighting in a war alongside their British brethren. When they did fight, they were described as being cowardly and unfit to be on the battle field. Ironically, when the British and Americans met on the battlefield during the Revolution, it was not the superior British army that came out victorious, but the “cowardly” American group of minutemen. Due to the British-French Wars, the colonists began to realize that they were not so different after all; their borders were only geographic boundaries, not social as they had once thought. After these series of wars, the British began to treat the colonies much harsher than they had previously, and the colonists began to resent that. England was putting the strain on a relationship that was not built to last. They were sowing the seeds of a great shift in power, they were sowing the seeds of a revolution.