Compare and contrast the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain before and after the Seven Years' War. Evaluate how the ideological, political, and economic relations were altered at the time.

Before the Seven Years' War, American colonies were not only prosperous but quite loyalist to Great Britain and participated in the war effort with resolution and impetus. They had had some military experience during their previous conflicts with the local Native American tribes and their French neighboring settlers but nothing like an all-out war. Many American settlers who would later be prominent figures of the American Revolution (including George Washington himself who commanded all the American militias) would participate heavily in the British war effort and gain invaluable military experience and a sense of proto-national unity and pride as colonists of the New World. Their economy was prosperous but was blocked from expanding because of the French possessions on their west border and they hoped to win those territories and colonize them and settle them to increase their prosperity. The fact that Americans were able to organize and succeed in the defense of their land gave them a sense of local proto-national unity. Also, during their dealings with the British generals they acquired a grest deal of political experience and skills.

After the Seven Years' War, Great Britain's debt had doubled and in order to get funds they decided to heavily tax their American colonies since these were rich and prosperous. They also decided to block their initiatives to settle all the western territories that had been conquered from the French and awarded to them, after the end of the war. One important reason for that was that the Native Americans who allied themselves with the British had made them promise to block the settlement of these territories in exchange for their participation in favor of the British. These fiscal abuses and these political hindrances to the expansionist plans of the American settlers strained their relations with the Empire. King George paid no attention whatsoever to the plight of American colonists and actually increased repression and taxation and it would all escalate into the American Revolution, where rebellious American settlers would use all teh military and political experience they obtained during the war to fight their former British companions.