HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Navigation Acts, User Friendly, Sugar Act
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French and indian war or 7 years war. English only won because they knew how to borrow money better than the french. People were no longer lending people to the crown, they were lending it to. Charters given to colonies had hazy/crazy boundaries. The huge chunk of land from ohio to minnesota. French thinks this land belongs to them, but the british-americans think they own it. Whites love the way because they got the northwest territory to spread outwards to. Whites are proud to be part of the british empire. English comes out of the war and set out a change of events that leads to the. The war was the rst time the colonies were seen up close for the rst time. Previously, there weren"t a lot of english in america. The problem the english faced was that now they had to pay back all their loans. England is looking for a new place to tax.
