Land-hungry settlers drove Anglo-Americans to provoke the Seven Years’ War

Evidence

The Seven Years War left the British government in charge of the lands to the west of the existing British colonies, from the Great Lakes down to the Mississippi. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1347 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Seven Years War expanded British territorial control significantly. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1347; Colonial land appropriation was framed as consent with violence as alternative — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 300; Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The Seven Years War expanded British territorial control significantly. #expands (0.85) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1347
• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land #corroborates (0.80)
• Virginian colonists’ atrocities against native peoples demanded a collective psychic adjustment #exemplifies (0.80)
• Colonial land appropriation was framed as consent with violence as alternative #qualifies (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 300
• Settler nations were built on stolen land and enslaved people. #expands (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 763
• Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies #complicates (0.70)