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Seven Years War Affected The Revolutionary War

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How the Seven Years’ War Affected the Revolutionary War The Seven Years War started the American Revolution in the long run, which all started because America's militia’s were never doing anything to support the war, which led to them calling on Britain to help. Putting America in tons of debt because when Britain sent over their troops after agreeing to the terms, it costed Britain a lot of money. In which some day the Americans would have to pay back in full. To repay those debts, the British began to tax the colonists with the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Revenue Acts and the Tea Act. Colonists began to rebel against these acts because the colonists seemed to believe it was unfair treatment to make them pay back debts of a country so far away. After all of the fighting and rebelling, the colonists started to look at independence a lot more often, making it seem to be the better option in the long run. Britain began to be very over populated, which means the british wanted to expand and move into the Ohio Valley area right along the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River. In order for the French to keep Canada connected with the lower part of the Mississippi as well as the Caribbean the French needed to keep that land. Nobody looked at whose land this really was, …show more content…

Colonists of course tried to untie things with Britain before the war and even earlier into the war, but it took quite awhile to get all or most of the colonists on board and supportive of the idea to break apart and become their own country. Britain was always against the idea because they never wanted America to break free from their power. In the end, all of these fights and taxations led America to the freedom we have today and is what made us our own

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