How did the French and Indian War lead to American independence? It helped colonists to take over the fur trade, which gave them money for the Revolutionary War. It showed that the colonists did not need the British because they learned to fight battles alone. It left the British with a large debt burden, which led to heavy taxation of the colonists. It made the colonists afraid because they saw France lose Canada as a colony to the British.

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It left the British with a large debt burden, which led to heavy taxation of the colonists.

That is true because that led to Britain taxing them so much that Americans got fed up and their slogan became "No taxation without representation" And which also then lead the the Tea Party. And then everything with downhill for Britain.

It left the British with a large debt burden, which led to heavy taxation of the colonists.