Answer: Because they had never developed immunities to the disease
Brought more jobs and less unemployment, reformers trying to get laws passed, organizing in labor unions that demand higher pay, shorter hours and safer working conditions. Men got the right to vote.
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.