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☆☆☆☆☆Results of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, included:
- Increased taxes on the American colonists to pay for the war
- England acquired the former French territories in Canada and owned all the land from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi river.
- French from Acadia were expelled and migrated to Louisiana, forming the Cajun culture
- settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was forbidden by the Crown
- England acquired formerly French territory in the Caribbean and in India.
- King George III taxed American colonists to pay for the war.
- King George III would not let colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The battle of Yorktown. The French helped the Americans defeat the British, by lending them their navy.
Cause of French Indian war
Disease killed millions of Native Americans
The Columbian Exchange (the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, etc. between the old and new worlds) had both positive and negative impacts. For the native people in the Americas, the cumulative effect was negative.
One example is large groups of native peoples being wiped out by European diseases like smallpox.
they sold other Africans to slave traders
The West African tribes, waged war with each other in order to raid and captured people from rival tribes which they then transported to the coast and sold to slave traders. It was a lucrative business for them and made the coastal tribes very rich and powerful.
West African slave traders
The Virginia Company made money from growing and selling tobacco.
They made items the colonists needed.
In Quebec City, 1608.
primARY SOURCES. apex:)
Apex ;) Britian controlled all the land from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River
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