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Directions: Complete the following questions using resources from the links listed below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qbzNHmfW0 (Crash Course Video)

To begin this assignment, watch the Crash Course video: The Seven Years War, and then answer the following questions.

1. What is another name for the Seven Years War?

2. What did Winston Churchill call the Seven Years War?

3. When did the Seven Years War take place?

The Seven Years War: Crash Course World History Video Analysis

4. What do some historians believe the Seven Years War was a continuation of?

5. Which two sides were the main adversaries in the war? Where did the fighting take place?

6. Why did the war take place? Why was trade such a big issue?

7. What did more colonists mean for the British?

8. What did France realise?

9. Who did most of the early fighting for Britain in the continental United States?

10. What occurred at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759?

11. Which side were the Native Americans most likely to side with?

12. As long as the French were present, what could the British not do to Native American land?

13. How were American Indians different from Europeans when it came to land ownership?

14. What did the French and English assume regarding the land?

15. Why did the Indian tribes get along with the French better than the Dutch and English?

16. What did the end of the Seven Years War, and an end to the French presence on the mainland, result in?

17. Why did many navy battles occur in the Caribbean between the French and British?

18. What was the greatest threat to combatants during the war? Provide evidence.

19. What was the cause of fighting in West Africa? What goods were being fought over?

20. Why did the princes of various Indian states often enlist European nations for help?

21. What was the Black Hole of Calcutta?

22. How did the British press respond?

23. How was the involvement of corporations unique in India during the war?

24. What did the Treaty of Paris signed in 1763 stipulate?

25. What was the human cost of the Seven Years War?

26. How did armies supply themselves in the 18th century? What did this do to the civilian population during times of war?

27. What happened to the British national debt due to the war? Who did the British feel should pay their share?

28. What would the taxation of the American colonists result in?

29. What would Britain eventually lose due to winning the Seven Years War? What would it gain?