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Seven Years’ War

Seven Years’ War. French & Indian War. NA before King William’s & Queen Anne’s Wars. France vs Great Britain. Britain & France fought one another with Indian allies from 1689 – 1713. These colonial wars were part of a bigger conflict b/w France, GB & Spain for trading rights

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Seven Years’ War

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  1. Seven Years’ War French & Indian War

  2. NA before King William’s & Queen Anne’s Wars

  3. France vs Great Britain • Britain & France fought one another with Indian allies from 1689 – 1713. • These colonial wars were part of a bigger conflict b/w France, GB & Spain for trading rights • GB’s victory in 1713, will give them control of northern Canada, Nova Scotia (Acadia) & Newfoundland • 40 years later will cause the migration of Acadians ‘cajuns’ to French held Louisiana • Est. a 50 year period of salutary neglect by GB of its American colonies • GB will not need to enforce Navigation Acts

  4. NA after the Treaty of Utrect

  5. What do these images have to do with the French & Indian War?

  6. King George’s War (1744-48) • Small part of the conflict in Europe known as the War of Austrian Succession • Peace treaty in 1748 forced colonists to give back capture French forts along the St. Lawrence River • French & Indian War • Began in NA, but spread to Europe, Africa & the Philippines (Seven Years’ War) • British colonists wanted to expand into the Ohio Valley, but France needed to control this area to link Canada to the Mississippi Valley • 1754 Albany Congress set up a plan of union to help defend the colonies against Indian/French attacks

  7. Indian territories, 1754 Iroquois Confederacy –Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga (GB allies) Huron, Algonquin (French Allies )

  8. Treaty of Paris (1763) • ‘In a sense, the history of the United States began with the fall of Quebec and Montreal: the infant republic was cradled on the Plains of Abraham’ • Aftermath of F&I War • France gave control of lands east of the Mississippi & Canada to GB • Iroquois & other interior tribes lost the ability to play rival European nations off each other • Pontiac’s War –Ottawa chief led tribes against British settlers in Detroit, killing more than 2,000 • British retaliated with inflicting smallpox on Indians • War led GB to est. the Proclamation Line, banning settlement west in order to work out potential conflicts w/ Indians west of the Appalachians

  9. The War for Empire

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