Summary: 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 to the Mississippi River and from Hudson Bay south to Florida. How exactly would Great Britain govern this new, expanded North American empire? Max Edelson, author of The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence, helps us explore this question investigating the Board of Trade and its General Survey of North America.
