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Short And Long Term Effects Of The Seven Year War

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Contextualization Prior to the Seven Year War, the colonist in America were faithful subjects to the king. They lived under the period of neglect where they can establish a self-sufficient society and developed a unique economic based on the region under the British government. Hoping to form a friendly relationship with the colonies, the Parliament avoid any strict enforcement keep American colonies in North American obedient to England. During the war, the American fought along with the British and the Iroquois against the French and their Native allies. They fought for the power to control the Ohio River Valley, Canada. The colonist provides many soldiers to fight along with the British. After the war, British won but ended up in a massive …show more content…

The changes included British new tax in the colonies to help them pay the debt since the war had been in their defense in the first place. The restrictions on expanding to the west of the Appalachian Mountain which the British saw this place as a safeguard for the colonies as many hostile Indians lived in Ohio Valley. However the American stay loyal to Great Britain after the Seven Year War.

In financing the war, the British government had run up a huge debt. King George III felt that the colonists should help them pay the debt, after all, the colonist had been beneficiaries of the war. In Order to pay this massive war debt, the British switched their government to imperial control over the colonists, which ended Britain's long-standing policy of Salutary …show more content…

After the war, the American stays loyal to the Crown. At least a fifth of the white population was considered loyalist in America. Their motives were varied. Some American felt that their lives would be better off if the colonies remained under British rule. Some were afraid to fight against the British Army. Others had business interests in England and knew that English trade was important to their economy, and some government officials and Anglican clergy in American remained loyal to British after the war. Still many American didn’t want independence until 1776 but rather they longed for Salutary Neglect. Famous Loyalist includes Benedict Arnold a general in the Continental Army who went to fight for the British and Thomas Hutchinson, a governor of Massachusetts colony. However, British taxation, as well as the restriction expanding into the western land, leads the colonist to cut any economic, political and financial tie with Great Britain. The Enlightenment ideas, Natural rights movements, and other factors show the colonist it is a common sense for the colonist to have Revolution against Britain. As the outcome of Seven Year War the British and American relationship changes, but it also has some continuities. The colonist stayed loyal to the Crown after the French and Indian

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“A Colonial Family 's Reaction to the Stamp Act It is 1765 in the colonies and the seven year 's war has just ended the long rivalry between France and Britain for control of North America, leaving Britain in possession of Canada and France without a footing on the continent. Victory in the war, however, had saddled the British Empire with a tremendous debt. Since the American colonists benefited from the war. The British government decided that the colonists should shoulder part of the wars cost.

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From 1763 to 1783 American colonist shifted the governing of the colonies from the British monarchy into the hands of the individuals elected by the colonies. Prior to 1763 the British Parliament imposed Navigation Acts following the ideas of Mercantilism, but due to salutary neglect these acts were never truly enforced by the British on the colonies. After the 7 Years War, which ended in 1763, the British finally turned their attention back to the colonies and worked to enforce their taxes and laws upon the colonies which lead to the changes seen in America in the following decades. The American colonist response to the British Parliament’s taxation of the colonies without a representative in Parliament can be seen in documents 1,

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The War of the Revolution What were the political objectives of the British in the Revolutionary war? After the French and Indian war, the British government tried to reduce the debt that occurred during the war. The British tried to collect more taxes throughout the colonies and gain more power over the colonies. The British started out by passing the Stamp Act which was a way for the British to get more money by taxing all paper goods that is printed. The Americans repealed this act and stopped buying British goods.

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The American colonies established their resistance to the British royal crown, as the ministers of King George III began to impose new taxes trying to reduce debt that incurred during the French and Indian War, aka the Seven Years War (1754-1763). The American

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Soon after the Seven Years’ War, the British and the colonists learned that victory came with a rather expensive price (Kennedy, Cohen, & Bailey, 2010). Great Britain tightened its grip on the colonies in North America, expecting colonists to pay for their financial struggles. In order to make colonists pay for the war, Great Britain reminded the North American colonies who had authority by controlling the colonists to submit to various ordinances ratified by British Parliament. This action only showed that arrogance leads to rebellion socially, economically, and politically. Socially, a lack of communication between Great Britain and the North American colonies was to blame for the Revolutionary War.

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Why In The Americas of 1775, You’d be Safer as a Loyalist At the point in which the Revolutionary War started in 1775 Americans compelled to decide weather they would support Britain and become a loyalist, or fight for there freedom as a Patriot. The loyalist, also known as Tories, supported the mother country whereas Patriots strongly resisted and past or present ties to Britain. For many of the colonist, the decision was not an easy one. There were numerous variables that were considered other than loyalty the monarch or ones freedom. When making this commitment, colonist pondered who's victory they'd benefit more from, the British or the colonies.

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"How did the Great War for Empire change the relationship between England and its American colonies?"      The Great War for Empire, beginning in 1754 and ending in 1763, may be considered the first global war. During the war Britain and Prussia formed an alliance against France and Austria which Spain later joined. The war had two main fronts, the one between Prussia and Austria in Europe and the other between Britain, France, and Spain in the American colonies and at sea.

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The seven years’ war relates to the present because without American’s being treated so poorly by the British they would have never been provoked to fight for their independence in the American Revolution or Revolutionary War. It also relates to the present because the proclamation of 1763 had no effect after Americans gained their independence, and all Indians lost their

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The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Year’s War, was a global war between Britain and France that occurred from 1754- 1763. It took place in North America and Europe, and “it was sparked by French and British competition for the ancestral Indian lands in the vast Ohio Valley” (America a Narrative History pg. 157). This was a decisive war as the winner would gain control of the entire North American continent because of the control of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Ultimately, the British won the war and was given many valuable landholdings in North America, which was stated in the Treaty of Paris of 1763. As a result of the French and Indian war, colonies were affected by policies in the form of economic taxes and acts issued by

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They believed that the American colonies would be substandard without Britain and that they made profit from trade with England. The loyalists debated that the colonies were too far away from Britain to have representation in Parliament, it just was not practical. British government argued that, “ the Americans cannot ‘properly’ be represented in Parliament” (Frazer, 42). They strongly opposed the Patriots in their war for independence, they believed that it was an act of treason toward Britain. Many loyalists took it upon themselves to help fight the American rebels.

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The French and Indian War was a significant turning point for the continental British colonies and their mother country, Great Britain. Not only did the French and Indian War establish British dominance over the French presence in North America, it also set forth the series of events in which the colonies began to break away from King and Parliament. Although the colonists had a strong sense of nationalism for Great Britain before and during the French and Indian War, after Britain 's victory, the economic, social, and political structures in the colonies began to change; shifting colonial views. The colonies were a product of a mercantile system set in place by Great Britain to expand their imperial empire.

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The five imperial wars greatly impacted everyone who participated. Moreover, the French and Indian War caused the thirteen colonies to become closer politically and culturally. In fact, it brought English colonists together as Americans for the first time and allowed them to realize the true intentions of the British Empire. English American settlement was a melting pot of “self-reliant individual landholders, fiercely independent in pursuit of their own interest” (American Yawp, chp.4). They had previously developed their own political institutions, each colony creating their own assembly in which carried out the same duties that Britain exercised such as taxation, managing revenue, and granting salaries to royal officials.

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This is because as soon as the war was over, Britain was left with a large debt. The British thought it was only appropriate to have the colonies help pay. As a result, the British imposed taxes. The colonies were just beginning to find a slight freedom in their ruling and felt as though they were equal to Britain. These taxes imposed a monarchical tyranny and created a segregation.

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For most of the 18th century Britain had a solid hold on its colonies in the new world. Most colonists, at the time had a strong sense of pride for the mother country, and considered themselves to be British subjects. However, this view would begin to change dramatically at the end of the French and Indian war. Not long after the end of the war these loyalist views would begin to change as Britain began its effort to survive economically after the war. Although they now had control over much of North America, they did not have control over their debt.

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Although the British proved to be triumphant in the war, they lost a lot of money and a lot of soldiers. During the course of the years, Britain wanted economic relief and turned to the colonies. After the War, amplified British taxation on the colonies ruined the relationship that they had with the colonies. The British said the taxation

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