HIST 2055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Atlantic Slave Trade, Paternalism, Tabula Rasa

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As americans, we tend to forget that the french and indian war was in fact a global war instead of one that just affected the territory of the united states. The french, with their allied indian tribes, had lost to the british-americans of the new world, who were backed by their parent country, britain. After such a great victory in 1763, we were left with a country filled with high-spirited british-americans who were hungry for more land and much more independence. Everything had changed for the colonies, the british, and the french, whether it was economically, politically, and socially. Due to the fact that britain nearly doubled its national debt by winning this war, king. George imposed a number of taxes on the colonies to make up for the debt. The lack of a crafty leadership in britain was also apparent.

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