HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Townshend Acts, Scientific Method, White Southerners
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Also referred to as the french and indian war (1754-1763), near modern-day pittsburg - french and english fight over boundaries. The war will ignite in europe later. Fought in north america, latin america, india, africa, europe. Victory for english - first british empire. Fought extensively in north america by men in uniform from the old country as well as normal people; settlers, farmers, natives local militia units. Colonial people feel very much that they contributed to the victory of the war and take great pride in it. The boundary of british north america changes incorporating florida. French are kicked out of canada - forced to migrate. 12 years later the empire explodes partially because of the nature of the success. The british government has been in debt since 1600s, the empire has been happy to let them do their thing.
