ew France and New Spain the colonies grew an annual rate of .5 percent. This is an important issue in the history of our country because at the time it kept our ancestors afloat, and it outlined a good economic basis for the years to come. As economic growth steadily increased the size of the economic pie, most middle and upper class British Americans began to enjoy improved living conditions. This was good because it made the Americans love what they had. Improving standards of living and relatively open access to land encouraged British colonists to see theirs as a society where hard work and savings could translate into prosperity, thus producing an upward spiral of economic growth. This was an important issue in the history of America because it was in a hidden way laying out the groundwork for the era of industrialization. Last but not least, an important issue in North American history was the Seven Years War. The first attempt at cooperation among the leaders of the British colonies had taken place twenty years prior, in 1754. Representatives from a select few of New England colonies met to figure a joint approach to the French and Indian challenge. While the delegates met, there was bloodshed between French Canadians and Virginians. In North America, this war-which Americans remembered as the French and Indian War became the final most destructive of the armed conflicts between the British and the French before the French revolution. This war is important in our North American history because it decided the imperial future of the vast region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, and it laid the groundwork for the conflict between the British and the colonists that led to the American Revolution. With the rapid population growth, the women, on average, bared approximately seven children. Our four fathers and their innovations and new ideas led to our strong economic leadership, and the war made westward exp...
