Today, two hundred and fifty years after the French and Indian War, most Americans are no more familiar with its events and significance than they are with those of the Peloponnesian War. Few know that George Washington struck the first spark of a war that set the British North American frontier ablaze from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia, then spread to Europe, Canada, the Caribbean,
West Africa, India, and finally, the Philippines. Historians call this immense conflict the Seven Years' War, Winston Churchill described it as 'the first world war."
Fred Anderson, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War, 2005
Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) had which of the following economic consequences for its American colonies?
A) The British government granted certain American colonists a monopoly on the fur trade without French competition
B
The British government paid for the construction of canals to encourage trade between the Great Lakes region and the East Coast.
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The British government increased taxation of colonial goods to help pay off the debt created by the war.
The British government forced American merchants to supply the British Royal Navy without payment,