<P> France attached comparatively little value to its North American possessions, apart from the highly profitable sugar - producing Antilles islands which it retained . Minister Choiseul considered that he had made a good deal at the Treaty of Paris, and Voltaire wrote that Louis XV had lost "a few acres of snow". For France, however, the military defeat and the financial burden of the war weakened the monarchy and contributed to the advent of the French Revolution in 1789 . </P> <P> For some of the Indian tribes, the elimination of French power in North America meant the disappearance of a strong ally, although other tribes were not so affected . The Ohio Country was now more available to colonial settlement, due to the construction of military roads by Braddock and Forbes . The Spanish takeover of the Louisiana territory was not completed until 1769, and it had modest repercussions . The British takeover of Spanish Florida resulted in the westward migration of Indian tribes who did not want to do business with them . This migration also caused a rise in tensions between the Choctaw and the Creek, historic enemies who were now competing for land . The change of control in Florida also prompted most of its Spanish Catholic population to leave . Most went to Cuba, including the entire governmental records from St. Augustine, although some Christianized Yamasee were resettled to the coast of Mexico . </P> <P> France returned to North America in 1778 with the establishment of a Franco - American alliance against Great Britain in the American War of Independence . This time, France succeeded in prevailing over Great Britain in what historian Alfred A. Cave describes as "French...revenge for Montcalm's death". </P>

Which of the following describes one of the causes of the french and indian war