Seven Years' War
The eighteenth century was a precise and hard time to live in, because of the many changes that took place. We have been divided by so many changes that have affected us due to different religious, cultural, and our way of living. I am from the South, where we have big families and most of our time is spent gathering agriculture and raising our families. Most of the crops that we grow are tobacco, rice where we have large plantation so we had to enforced labor on our slaves in order for us to benefit from our profits. At this time the birth rate has increased so much to as women were given birth between five to seven children as it is still today. It was impossible to form a common identity, because of the strained relations in this area. This population had a significant impact on the lifestyles in the eighteenth century because of the harsh living and hard times. Young single women from poorer families worked in wealthier households as maids, cooks, laundresses, seamstresses, or nurses (Davidson 2006). White males received college education where as white females were excluded from receiving a higher education and slaves received no education at all. I was taught what I needed to know at home far as education wise my mom taught me my lessons. My brothers were taught to go out and work on the farm, and hunt, because there were no monies to pay for our education, so in that area there was a struggle to get an education In order to set up farms the English colonists were looking for new lands to expand. However the French also profited from the land further south, where I live to set up trading and trapping posts.
The British Parliament wanted the colonists to obey their trade regulation and this led up to the Stamp Act, because of this act the British were taxed on import, newspaper, and legal documents. They were not happy about being taxed and they did not agree to it. Yet both the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act were taxes passed by members of Parliament, none of whom had been elected by colonials (Davidson 2006). Although ,there were differences among the eighteenth century that resulted more between regions, races, classes, ethnic groups as there were also diversity in the ways that Americans thought and believed. Religious problems in New England began when people started rebelling against Puritan authority. Quakers were harshly persecuted in New England with floggings and banishment (Davidson 2006). Education in New England colonies was important because church members were required to read the Bible so they had to be literate. Religion rigidly shaped life in New England, and while religion was still a part of people's lives in the Chesapeake area, it did not play as big of a part in government as Puritanism did in New England (Davidson 2006).
The Great Awakening came about to deepened the influence of religious divisions among Americans. The revival was the only experience that a large number of people had in common (Davidson 2006). Many ministers in these churches preached an “evangelical” message, emphasizing the need for individuals to experience “a new birth” through religious conversion. The drama of such performances appealed to people of all classes, ethnic groups, and races. By the time Whitefield sailed back to England in 1741, thousands of awakened souls were joining older churches or forming new ones (Davidson 2006). Americans had been fighting over religion well before the Great Awakening, the new revivals left colonials even more divided along religious lines (Davidson 2006).
The Seven’s Year War is a war between the French and Indians and what led to this war was mostly about land. The shipbuilding, trading, farming, and manufacturing had made the colonies profitable. The potential loss of land to the English was a threat to their livelihood. The French fur trade was interfered by the expanding of the English fur trade (Davidson 2006). There were more issues behind the Seven Years’ War where as there was competition between France, and England in the colonies, this led to the North American extension of the war. And the desire to dominate Germany, Silesia, between Austria and Prussia, this led to another chapter of the Seven Years’ War, because the war lasted for nine years (1756-1763). The costs of war and the colonists’ unwillingness to contribute to these costs encouraged the tightening of British imperial control. Many new laws were passed and introduced by the British into the colonies, such as the Sugar Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Quartering Act of 1767, the Townshend Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or ‘need’ for the American War of Independence (Davidson 2006).
This war has affected me in so many ways, as taxes were raised up; this was one of the reasons why we could not afford to get a good education. And land was another reason for the effect of the war nobody wanted to pull together, everybody pulling against one another. And slavery has affected me too in some way because they were forced to labor harder than usual, but there were also something good about the slaves because some were not used to work all the time if they were used to sew, cook and watch after children and also clean house, but they were allowed to leave after work was finished. Although through it all women were allowed to divorce their husbands, but not all women in colonies could.

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Davidson−Gienapp−Heyrman−Lytle−Stoff:Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, Fourth Edition Retrieved January 16, 2011