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The French and Indian War was a nationalizing experience for the British colonies. It brought them together in battle against a common foe and was a source of much resentment between the English government and the colonists. As the war progressed, the resentmen ....

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.... He had his own problems, why should he distress over such distant conflicts? This attitude began to change with the coming of the war. Soldiers and statesmen from all across the colonies sat together in war strategy meetings and fought side by side in the battles and they found after talking amongst themselves that they had more in common than they had originally imagined. (1) They discovered that they were all fellow Americans who, for the most part, spoke the same language and shared the same goals and ideals. The French were a threat to all of them. They learned that they could be strong when they banded together, and they needed to be becaus ....