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Explore the Seven
4.1

Years’ War on
4.2
MyHistoryLab

4.3
WHaT did THE GloBal
SEvEN yEarS’ War mEaN
4.4 For NorTH amErica?

The period of the Seven Years’
4.5 War, 1754–1763, marked a “world
war” that tested the security of the
thirteen British mainland colonies
in North America during an intense SEvEN yEarS’ War this political allegory shows two opponents in seven years’ War
(1756–1763), empress Maria theresa of Austria and King Fredrick ii of Prussia, playing chess
period of imperial European—and with Mars, the Roman god of war.
global—rivalries. The war began
in North America as conflict over THE OPPOSING SIdES IN THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR
land claims between Virginia and
New France and two years later
reached across the Atlantic to
embroil many European powers,
eventually spreading all the way
to India. The conflict pitted Great
Britain and its allies against France
and its allies while both sides used
alliances with Native Americans to
bolster their positions. The British
Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, with allies
emerged victorious in 1763, which
dramatically changed the situation France, Spain, Austria, Russia, Sweden with allies
in North America. The British
gained Canada from the French and off the British and vice versa. In addition, colonists
Florida from Spain, while Native in the thirteen mainland British colonies found
American nations found that they themselves no longer surrounded by competing
could no longer play the French colonial powers.

K e y Q u es t io ns Use myHistorylab Explorer to answer these questions:

response How did other analysis What made consequences In what
colonial claims in North America this eighteenth-century war a ways did the territorial results of
create instability for the thirteen “world war”? the war impact British mainland
British mainland colonies? Map the main battles in various colonies?

Locate the british colonies in parts of the world. conceptualize what these changes,
relation to competing colonial especially the Proclamation Line
claims. of 1763, meant for the british
colonists.

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