Answers A and D I am pretty sure but don't trust me.
He'd already invaded France and was a the bring of war with England
A good idea would be to use the 7 year war. It’s a good way to talk about colonial taxes because it was the start of it all the war was only supposed to be 6 months and it turned into seven year so the started taxing the people and colonies in order to make back the money the had lost during the war