THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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Native American tribes lost control of all of their North American territory to France and Britain.
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Britain gained control over all of North America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
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France no longer controlled any territory in North America after the war
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Spain increased its North American territory by capturing the Florida and Georgia colonies during the war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the resulting Treaty of Paris (1763), Great Britain secured significant territorial gains in North America, including all French territory east of the Mississippi river, as well as Spanish Florida, although the treaty returned Cuba to Spain.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Seven Years’ War changed the balance of power in North America after the Peace of Paris in 1763. Britain’s debt was enlarged, forcing them to tax the colonies. They expanded their territory in the New World: they gained former French lands and Spain gained other French lands such as Louisiana.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did Britain’s victory in the war affect its colonial holdings in North America? Britain claimed all the land on North America east of the Mississippi River including Florida. Spain gained the French lands west of the Mississippi. France was left with only a few islands by Newfoundland and in the Caribbean.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1765, parliament passed the Stamp Act to help pay down the war debt and finance the British army’s presence in the Americas. It was the first internal tax directly levied on American colonists by parliament and was met with strong resistance.