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Effects of the Seven Years War
The British victory in the Seven Years War or as it was known in North America the French and
Indian War had a great impact on the British Empire. Firstly, it meant a great expansion of
British territorial claims in the New World. France lost nearly all of its North American colonies
with the main blow being their loss of the large territory of Canada. France also lost all of its
territory to Great Britain in the raw material rich Asian country of India. Britain’s ally in the war,
Prussia, ruled by Fredrick the Great came out of the war as a European power. But the cost of
the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. Moreover, the war generated substantial resentment
towards the colonists among English leaders, who were not satisfied with the financial and
military help they had received from the colonists during the war. All these factors combined to
persuade many English leaders that the colonies needed a major reorganization and that the
central authority should be in London. The English leaders set in motion plans to give London
more control over the government of the colonies and these plans were eventually a big part of
the colonial resentment towards British imperial policies that led to the American Revolution.
Step-by-step explanation:
The war had an equally profound but very different effect on the American colonists. First of all,
the colonists had learned to unite against a common foe. Before the war, the thirteen colonies
had found almost no common ground and they coexisted in mutual distrust. But now they had
seen that together they could be a power to be reckoned with. And the next common foe would
be Britain.