This week on the Lectures and History podcast, British Imperial Reforms and American Colonial Grievances in the wake of the Seven Years' War.

University of Notre Dame Professor Caitlin Carter explains how colonial America defined an empire.

Okay, so today I'm going to start by walking through these imperial reforms, mainly in two realms.

Okay, so one, land regulation and the other in terms of taxation and trade policy.

From there, we'll cover the colonial grievances that emerge coming out of these reforms,

focusing especially on how they get framed.

Okay?

Lastly, we're going to kind of dive into the crises of the 1770s as we head toward this movement

for independence and the shift toward that movement specifically for independence.

Now, if you went to high school in the U.S., which I think most of you

probably did, some of the story is probably going to seem a bit familiar. You've heard a lot of these

policies probably before. But as we move into the American Revolution with our class, we're going to

be taking kind of a different focus. So we're going to be really looking at things specifically

through the lens of empire. Okay? So that's going to be really looking at things specifically through the lens of empire.

Okay, so that's going to be our focus here. Key terms for today, you've got the proclamation of 1763,

the Stamp Act, the Enlightenment, which we'll talk about, the Declaratory Act, the Townshend duties,

the Boston Massacre, Somerset, and the coercive acts.

Okay, so quite a few key terms.

This is a period of a lot of policies coming into place, court rulings, and these kind of things.

So we've got a lot of key terms at play.

Okay, now last time I suggested the Great Britain's biggest victory coming out of the Seven Years' War paved the path for the Empire's defeat in North America.

And today I really want to pick up here to explain how this happened.

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