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The American Revolution Unit # 6 Part #1

The American Revolution Unit # 6 Part #1. American Soldiers. English Soldiers. War. Vs. England. France. The French and Indian War 1689 - 1763. England and France Compete for North America. Background England, France, Spain, & Netherlands are competing for world trade. .

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The American Revolution Unit # 6 Part #1

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  1. The American Revolution Unit # 6 Part #1 American Soldiers English Soldiers

  2. War

  3. Vs. England France The French and Indian War 1689 - 1763 England and France Compete for North America

  4. Background • England, France, Spain, & Netherlands are competing for world trade.

  5. France greatest threat to colonies • Claimed territory from St. Lawrence River to Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico. • Protected claim with fort system • Forts stop English westward expansion • Ohio River valley was 1st conflict • b. Spain was a threat to the south

  6. Native Americans - • Conflict was over control and use ancestral land • French • Mainly traders & trappers • Did not take Indian land • Trappers married native women • Frenchmen adopted native ways • Built alliances with Huron and Algonquians

  7. English • Mainly farmers • Clear land for crops & built fences • Brought own families • Keep English ways and ideas • Form alliance with Iroquois because their traditional enemies joined French • Charge less than French on trade goods

  8. Four Wars – French and Indian War • King William’s War (1689 – 1697) • Struggle for the fur trade • Europe - War of the League of Augsburg (Spain, German States, & Sweden) • Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 – temporary peace

  9. Queen Anne’s War (1702 – 1713) • Stop the combination of Spanish & French powers • Europe - War of the Spanish Succession • Treaty of Utrecht in 1713– temporary peace

  10. King George’s War (1744 –1748) • Conflict about the boundaries of New England, Acadia, & Ohio River Valley • Europe - War of Jenkins’ Ear (vs. Spain)/War of the Austrian Succession (v. France) • Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 – temporary peace

  11. French & Indian War (1756 - 1763) • A contest between France and Britain for possession of North America. • Europe - Seven Years’ War • Britain, Prussia, and Hanover fought against an alliance of France, Austria, Saxony, Russia, Sweden and Spain.

  12. French and Indian War – America (Read and Complete Reading Guide)

  13. Pontiac's Rebellion • Native Americans was tired of the British. • The British exhibited little cultural sensitivity, traded unfairly, and failed to stop encroachments on Indian land. • Pontiac, a Native American leader who united various tribes with the goal of expelling the British.

  14. The uprising lasted from 1763 to 1766. • Massacres and atrocities occurred on both sides— most notably, British General Jeffrey Amherst gave the Native Americans blankets infested with smallpox.

  15. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 • Ended encroachments on territory promised to the Indians. • Settlers were not to establish themselves west of the “Proclamation Line.” • The effort was unsuccessful and is viewed by many to be a leading cause of the Revolutionary War.

  16. North Carolina Effects • Raids from Native Americans along the frontier – destroyed crops, burned homes and barns, slaughtered livestock, killed settlers • Construction of a fort near Yadkin river - Fort Dobbs (near Statesville) • Cherokee and settlers became bitter enemies • Set up system of paying a bounty for Native American scalps • Broke the power of the Cherokees

  17. Colonial Effects • War ended French influence in North America. • England gained large amounts of land • England controls North America • Hurt relationships between the English and Native Americans. • Worsen relationship between England and its colonies

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