What were the results of the Seven Years’ War?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, expanding the British Empire and driving the French
from the North American mainland.
2. Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean were given back to France.
3. Spain gained control of Louisiana.
4. Britain gained control of Canada, Spanish Florida, and all the land east of the Mississippi River.
5. Americans gained a feeling of national pride, drawing closer to Britain as they became more
aware of being part of a great military and commercial empire.
6. Americans gained a larger perspective of colonial America as thousands of young soldiers
crossed the boundaries of their own colony and were exposed to the opportunities available in American beyond the plantation and village.
7. Americans trained a corps of American officers who learned the British were not invincible.
8. British officials charged Americans with ingratitude and used the argument to later justify
parliamentary taxation in America.
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