"'I ordered my company to fire,' [George] Washington reported. . . . This incident . . . led to massive French retaliation and the outbreak of what was soon a world war. It raged in North America for six years, 1754-60, in Central and South America, in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, in India and the East, and not least in Europe, where it was known as the Seven Years War (1756-63). . . . Horace Walpole [stated]: 'The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire.'"Paul Johnson, historian, A History of the American People, 1997Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) in North America?A. Intensified competition between France and Britain over coloniesB. Efforts by Britain to monopolize tobacco sales in EuropeC. Spanish attempts to end British control of the trans-Atlantic slave tradeD. Britain's desire to enact new taxes on Native American nations

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