FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR/SEVEN YEARS WAR

WARS, UPRISINGS, GENERAL DISCONTENT

Imperial Wars Spain vs. Great Britain vs. France King William’s War &Queen Anne’s War

Quebec Native Americans Nova Scotia/Trading Rights

King George’s War Iraq . . . I mean Georgia

Colonial Rebellions 18 uprisings against colonial gov’t Six major black uprisings 40 riots

WAR IN THE COLONIES FOR THE COLONIES

Other major wars, no interest in troops in colonies

French and Indian War/ Seven Years War, started in the colonies

Professional troops

SEE, WHAT HAPPENED WAS . . .

France builds forts in Ohio River Valley

VA sends small militia under George Washington

Early success, eventual surrender to French and Native American forces

AND THEN . . .

VA sends another expedition General Edward Braddock 2000 troops routed Native Americans attacked from PA to

NC Britain fails in Canadian invasion TWICE

ALBANY PLAN OF UNION

Developed by Franklin Inter-Colonial gov’t Recruit troops Collect taxes Never took effect

HOW DID BRITAIN WIN?

New PM strategy to conquer Canada Eventually took Louisbourg, Quebec,

Montreal Treaty signed in 1763

EFFECTS

Supremacy for Great Britain No more constant threat for colonists British thought colonists were weak Colonists proud of record they could

defend themselves Not impressed with British tactics $

NON-TEXTBOOK EFFECTS

Poverty skyrocketed Colonial Trade: 500,000 pounds in 1700; by 1770 was

worth 2,800,000 pounds. Wealth in the hands of a few

(Boston: 5% controlled 49% of wealth) Growth of lower-class resentment

“I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow, as most of you are and obliged to go thro' good report and evil report, for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.. .. “ – James Otis