As a result of Great Britain’s victory in the Seven Years’ War, British North America expanded so that it stretched from the Atlantic seaboard west to the Mississippi River and from Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence south to Florida. Plus, it also included islands in the Caribbean.
How exactly would Great Britain, centered on a small island over 3,000 miles away, govern this new, expanded North American empire?
Max Edelson), an Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence), helps us explore this question by taking us on an investigation of the Board of Trade and its General Survey of North America.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/186)
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