The Seven Years War: Conflict Between England And France

The Seven Years War also known as the French and Indian war was the conflict between England and France. The French expansion brought French into conflict with the British colonies. In 1754, Benjamin Franklin wanted to bring the colonials together under the Albany Plan of Union to defend themselves against the French and the Indians but was unsuccessful. In 1763, the Americans merged with Britain and although there was tension between the Americans and Britain, yet they bonded because of battle experience and previous victories and not only did this create a bond between them, but it also created a bond among all 13 colonies. When the American merged with the British empire, the pride of the colonials grew but what they didn’t know was that they jeopardized their
No one imagined that within two decades Britain’s American colonies would separate from the empire. The Seven Years War was a success for Britain in 1763 but left them in a very big debt because they were the ones that supply everything to go to war. London wanted the colonist to help and pay for the protection that the British provided, but the colonist felt unfairly taxed and advised London that they could not tax them because they lacked representation in Parliament. In 1651, the first Navigation Act was passed. “According to the Navigation Laws, certain “enumerated” goods and the most valuable products such as Tobacco and Sugar, had to be transported in English ships and sold in English ports, then re-export to foreign markets. It seems that the colonials disobeyed this law. In the mid-1760’s the British basically saw them as an aide to help their country. When Americans began to insist that they were unrepresented by Parliament, they had little support from the others, and the British Government could not tax the colonies. In 1764, they passed the Sugar Act, which reduced the tax on molasses imported into North American from the French West