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aka the 7 Years' War, between France and England. In the colonies, it was called the French Indian War because the colonists fought with British soldiers against France the Indians who were on side of France. Because of the war, England had a massive war debt began to tax the people in the 13 colonies. -
A British policy from the late 17th to mid-18th century that involved the lax enforcement of parliamentary laws, particularly trade regulations, on the American colonies