Under the Articles of Confederation, each state received one vote, regardless of how big the state's population is.
This was changed in the New York plan, which put forth the idea that votes should be based on state population, and a compromise was made with the Connecticut Compromise, which took both of the plans, and created two houses. One that would favor the small states by giving each one vote, and the other favoring the big states, by giving votes based on population.
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American revolution.
