How did the french and indian war lead to american independence? select one: a. it colonists to take over the fur trade, which gave them money for the revolutionary war. b. it showed that the colonists did not need the british because they learned to fight battles alone. c. it left the british with a large debt burden, which led to heavy taxation of the colonists. d. it made the colonists afraid because they saw france lose canada as a colony to the british.