THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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Promised all fighting men commissions into the British Army
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Promised settlers Indian lands if they helped fight
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Promised to pay for all expenses that occurred in the French and Indian War
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They would grant women the right to vote
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pitt’s plan for the 1760 campaign was ambitious and planned to be decisive: to take Montreal and the rest of Canada, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. For this effort he would need all the troops he could get, and he again turned to the American colonies for manpower.
Detailed explanation-2: -So Pitt sent Britain’s best generals to North America. To encourage the colonists to support the war, he promised large payments for military services and supplies. Under Pitt’s leadership, the tide of battle turned. In 1758, Major General Jeffrey Amherst captured Louisbourg, the most important fort in French Canada.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pitt is best known as the wartime political leader of Britain during the French and Indian War, especially for his single-minded devotion to British victory over France, which, when achieved, made Britain dominant in world affairs.
Detailed explanation-4: -What decision did Prime Minister William Pitt during the French and Indian War that would lead to Parliamentary sovereignty after the war was over? Britain didn’t strictly control North American colonies and allowed them to create their own colonial assemblies.