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Notes on video lecture:
The Seven Years' War and Colonial Revolutions
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 21, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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Pyrrhic, small, revenge, funding, first, tax, losers, self, revolutions, bankrolled, endowed, English, repercussions, imagined, objected, Enlightenment, naval, settler, Austria, warfare, lost, world, loss, global, win, slaves, Manila, Indian, Europes, hemorrhaging, Madison, enmity, military, natural, mercantilist, partner, revenues, swap, husbands, commercial, brutality, historic
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the results of pressures on empires intensified the stakes of              competition
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heightened the cycle of                          wars
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resulted in a cascade of                        of many sorts
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the globalization of empires across the world meant the globalization of               
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everywhere in the contested zones
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in particular the neo-              , the new model colonies
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eventually meant a global fiscal crisis
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the Seven Years' War
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"The French and              War"
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as it is known in the United States
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back-country                   
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was really the first            war
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saw fighting from              to Montreal
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the first moment in which empires began to          colonies and territories as part of a peace process
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1763: end of war
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a series of immediate             
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France
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New France (Canada) fell to the               
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France passed its Canadian colonies onto what appeared to be the immediate winner of this global contest, Great Britain
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Spain
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occupations of several of its prime colonies including huge            stations in Havana and Manila
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but Spain and France would wait for their moment to get their revenge on the British
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British victory was                victory
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immediately faced a challenge of               
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huge debts from fighting
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their now sprawling, global empire
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augmented pressure back home in London to reform along the lines of the                           
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had to try to get the colonies to pay for themselves
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stop the                          of resources from the central government in London
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       hikes to pay for expenses
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at this point in history, the expenses were largely                 , as there were not yet welfare states
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most empires were raising                  and taxes
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colonies                  to these new taxes
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this was the change for France and Spain to get their                for their humiliation during the Seven Years' War
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Spain and France                      what would become the American Revolution
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especially naval assistance especially after 1778 when the fate of the American revolution could have been         
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American Revolution
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British increasing fear in pressing on with the fight and losing British Northern America threatened          of colonies elsewhere
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especially India
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what happened in 1776 was the            of its kind
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possessions would break loose, beginning with the American colonies which was, however, relatively            at the time
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the breakaway of the colonies invoked a new,                  model
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it was a defense of the                rights of free born Englishmen against the caprice of King George III
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against unjust fiscal laws
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result was that the American revolutionaries, without intending it to be this way, had worldwide                           
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1. created a new model of self-determination, an idea that people were                with rights to determine who governed them
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2. once the old British state ceased trying to constrain encroaching on the wilderness and Indians, the constraints on                expansion were lifted
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British no longer needed to have formal control over the colonies
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looked at them now as a               
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they could get the best of                      interaction without having to pay for fighting in the frontiers which they let the new States in America conduct
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a win        for the British
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3. freedom
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part about nation states and         -government
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the age of revolutions was beginning to spread a language of liberty in directions that people had not really intended or                 
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personal liberties
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women to choose their                 
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free will
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idea that              could be free from their masters
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slaves would feel their fields as armies moved through
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international context
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James                addressing the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia: "Carthage in Rome tore one another to pieces instead of uniting their forces to devour weaker nations of the earth. The houses of                and France were hostile as long as they remained the great powers of Europe. England and France have succeeded in the preeminence and to the              to the rivalry, and it is to this principle we owe perhaps our liberty."

Spelling Corrections:

emnity ⇒ enmity

Ideas and Concepts:

Via tonight's History of the World Since 1300 class: "Technically speaking, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was Via tonight's History of the World Since 1300 class, "Technically speaking, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was the first World War, which began with the divide between Great Britain (The Hanover's) and France and Spain (The Bourbons), as well as the divide between the Prussian's (The Hozenzollerns) and Austria (The Habsburgs). These divides, as well as numerous alliance systems would divide the world and their colonies against each other, ended up including almost every great power of the time, and battles raged from Europe to North America, Central America, West Africa, India and in the Philippines."the first World War, which began with the divide between Great Britain (The Hanover's) and France and Spain (The Bourbons), as well as the divide between the Prussian's (The Hozenzollerns) and Austria (The Habsburgs). These divides, as well as numerous alliance systems would divide the world and their colonies against each other, and ended up including almost every great power of the time, battles raging from Europe to North America, Central America, West Africa, India and in the Philippines."
Via this morning's History of the World since 1300 class: "France and Spain's humiliation to the British in the Seven Years' War was a major incentive to get their revenge by bankrolling what would become the American Revolution, especially through naval assistance and especially after 1778 when the outlook for the colonists looked most grim."
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