• Seven Years’ War breaks out in Europe from 1756-1763
• Was a global war, fought on five continents, one of the first global war
• Prussia and Great Britain fought France and Austria, but Native Americans played a big role throughout the war
• Britain had Americans sided with them, but the Natives supported both France & Britain
• War took place in continental U.S., the Caribbean Sea, the coast of Africa as well as India
• War started due to British colonists wanting to expand into the west land of the Appalachian mountains, which the land past the mountains are technically owned by the French
• The land owned by French had mostly trading posts
• Goal of Britain: To expand into the American interior to allow for more colonists to grow English …show more content…
President George Washington (who at the time was a Virginia colonel in the War)
• At the end of the Seven Years War France was drastically weakened, but Britain would have to pay for the costs of the war in the future
• With Britain gain such a debt, they believed that the American colonists should pay for the war expenses, although with the colonies paying for taxes this would fuel the American Revolution
• In 1760, George III becomes the King of Great Britain and during 1762, the Treaty of San Ildefonso where France fulfilled its obligations with Spain
• Over time after the war, Natives started several uprisings in the Ohio valley and the Great Lakes
Imperial Revenues & Reorganization, 1760-1766:
• In order for Britain to pay the war expenses of the Seven Years War, the English colonists had to pay lots of …show more content…
The British Parliament then rejected it and forbade all trade with the colonies
• The Battles of Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill resulted in British troops retreating and gaining higher land
• In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense that told readers that the colonies needed a new form of government based on the ideals of the Enlightenment Era
• In July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence established the colonies as a country that separated itself from Great Britain. As well as being an independent country formed by thirteen states.
• The Declaration of Independence states that a government exists for the benefit of the people and that "all men are created equal." Giving all citizens of this new country as being created not only equal, but as well as being endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, the new ideals and beliefs of the Declaration fully separated itself from Great
• Was a global war, fought on five continents, one of the first global war
• Prussia and Great Britain fought France and Austria, but Native Americans played a big role throughout the war
• Britain had Americans sided with them, but the Natives supported both France & Britain
• War took place in continental U.S., the Caribbean Sea, the coast of Africa as well as India
• War started due to British colonists wanting to expand into the west land of the Appalachian mountains, which the land past the mountains are technically owned by the French
• The land owned by French had mostly trading posts
• Goal of Britain: To expand into the American interior to allow for more colonists to grow English …show more content…
President George Washington (who at the time was a Virginia colonel in the War)
• At the end of the Seven Years War France was drastically weakened, but Britain would have to pay for the costs of the war in the future
• With Britain gain such a debt, they believed that the American colonists should pay for the war expenses, although with the colonies paying for taxes this would fuel the American Revolution
• In 1760, George III becomes the King of Great Britain and during 1762, the Treaty of San Ildefonso where France fulfilled its obligations with Spain
• Over time after the war, Natives started several uprisings in the Ohio valley and the Great Lakes
Imperial Revenues & Reorganization, 1760-1766:
• In order for Britain to pay the war expenses of the Seven Years War, the English colonists had to pay lots of …show more content…
The British Parliament then rejected it and forbade all trade with the colonies
• The Battles of Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill resulted in British troops retreating and gaining higher land
• In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense that told readers that the colonies needed a new form of government based on the ideals of the Enlightenment Era
• In July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence established the colonies as a country that separated itself from Great Britain. As well as being an independent country formed by thirteen states.
• The Declaration of Independence states that a government exists for the benefit of the people and that "all men are created equal." Giving all citizens of this new country as being created not only equal, but as well as being endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, the new ideals and beliefs of the Declaration fully separated itself from Great