... was not the main battlefield of the Seven Years' War, yet the aftermath of the war had significantly altered the situation in the British colonies on the continent. When the war was finally brought to an end, the French Colonial Empire had ceded Quebec, the former New France, to Britain; so the British Empire finally established its hegemony in North America. Nonetheless, tremendous public debt had forced Britain to increase the revenue by expanding the taxation in ... territory to include colossal amount of lands where frontiersmen from the Colony of Virginia and other colonies had alr...

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... the rest of mankind. By virtue of these advantages the new and largely empty continent of America was peopled mainly from West Europe, as it happened in case of Australia and Canada, as a prospective home for a European population. There were settlements of the British, the Dutch, the French and the Spanish in various parts of North America. But the British ones absorbed the others ... the initiative of some leading statesmen. A Constitution was drawn up and ratified based on the Philadelphia Declaration and the draft was finally approved. Thus a more efficient federal government came in...

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... all coastal Indian tribes had been devastated. The inland Indians such as the Cherokess, Creeks, and Iroquois managed to fend off colonization until the end of the 18th century. L. Late-Coming Georgia:The Buffer Colony 1. Georgia was formally founded in 1733. It was the last of the 13 colonies. The colony was designed to protect the lucrative Carolinas from the resentful Spaniards in Florida and the French in Louisiana. Georgia received financial support from Britain ... . 4. During this time in England, the people revolted in the Glorious Revolution, dethroning James II and placing Will...

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... was the first in the revolution. The odds favored the British in just about every aspect possible. The unorganized colonial army verses the internationally known British forces looked to be an easy win for Britain. However with the dedication and desire to fight, the colonists would prevail in one of the greatest accomplishments in American history. The American generals clearly were the reason for the ... of the many inventions of the Southern farmers after the civil war. The South was now becoming more like the North in the sense they both were becoming more industrialized. Because of...

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... acquired from France in 1763 through the signing of the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Seven Years' War. Quebec's inhabitants, almost all French-speaking Roman Catholics, were thought to be uninterested in the representative legislature. Furthermore, English law did not allow Catholics to hold public office. However, the Treaty of Paris preserved the religious rights of Catholics, the power of the Church, the French civil law, and the position of the French language. Thus French Canadians were able to preserve their ... and history in Great Britain. The American Constitution was draf...

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