HIST 2055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paternalism, Tabula Rasa, Pseudoscience
Document Summary
What most people tend to forget when we remember the british-american win over the french and their allied indian tribes is that this was in fact a global war, not one that just influenced the united states territory. The victory in 1763 had left the people of the thirteen colonies hungry for more land and much more independence. The result of the war was this: the french had been pushed back east of the. Mississippi river, the british territory had been set between the eastern coast and the mississippi, there was room for indian territory, and we are left with both the main lands of great britain and france deep in dept. Due to the fact that the french and indian war had nearly doubled the debt of great britain, king george decided the best way to raise some revenue was the tax the colonies. The first man in charge of collecting this revenue was george.
