OUTCOMES

On February 10, 1763 the treaty of Paris was signed ending the war between Britain and France in North America (Treaty of Hubertusburg on February 15, 1763 ended the European theatre). The British gained control over all French territory in North America except New Orleans and some small islands. France regained the Caribbean Islands and Martinique which had fallen under British control. Spain gained control of Louisiana as compensation for losing Florida to the British. The French and Indian war would prove to be the last of those between France and England and France 's power in North America had ended, however, not its influence.

Another major outcome of the war was the fiscal debt that Britain had acquired through years of costly warfare with France (one of the reasons France lost the war was due to the same situation with England ). Huge war debts began to take their toll on England and the colonies were in turn heavily taxed as a result. Some scholars argue that it was the almost decade of warfare that eventually led to the American Revolution. Others use the parent/child metaphor to explain the tensions between England and America following the French and Indian War. This kind of relationship caused uneasiness between the two countries. As different taxes began to culminate throughout the years before the Revolution, the relationship between America and England began to ebb to the point of war.