Why Did the Seven Years' War Have Such a Significant

question 47

Multiple Choice

Why did the Seven Years' War have such a significant impact on American-British relations?

• A) The colonists resented the British government's decision to begin treating the native Americans as full citizens and decided to revolt against the British.
• B) The Americans had sided with the French during the war, and they resisted resuming their allegiance to Britain in the 1760s.
• C) The war dramatically expanded the borders of British America, and American colonists became angry when the British encouraged them to leave the East Coast to become settlers in the wilderness of the Ohio River valley.
• D) The costs incurred by the British during the war raised taxes in the colonies, which the colonists first resisted by protest and then by outright rebellion.

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Definitions:

Efferent Fibres

Nerve fibers that carry impulses away from the central nervous system to effectors (such as muscles or glands), enabling actions and responses to sensory input.

Motor Fibres

Nerve fibers that transmit impulses from the brain or spinal cord to muscles or glands, thereby initiating movement or action.

Peripheral Nervous System

The part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord, responsible for connecting the central nervous system to limbs and organs.

Somatic Nervous System

A part of the peripheral nervous system responsible for voluntary control of body movements through control of skeletal muscles.