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Title: THE DUEL FOR NORTH AMERICA


1
CHAPTER 6
  • THE DUEL FOR NORTH AMERICA

2
French Settlement in North America
  • France came late to NA colonization
  • Edict of Nantes
  • Louis XIV 1643-1715
  • Samuel de Champlain
  • France ruled Canada autocratically
  • Reasons Canada grew slowly

French holdings 1700
3
New France Fans Out
  • Beaver and other furs important resource
  • Fur-trappers ranged over French Territory
  • Important interaction with Native Americans
  • Exploration of Voyageurs
  • Jesuit Missionaries

4
Map 6.2 Fur-Trading Posts
5
Other French Explorers
  • Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit
  • Robert de La Salle interior basin Louisiana
  • Early 1700s establish a number of posts on the
    Mississippi river.
  • New Orleans founded in 1718.
  • Significance of New Orleans?

6
Clash of Empire
  • King Williams War 1689-1697 (War of the league
    of Augsburg)
  • British and allies against French and Spanish to
    try to check the power of France
  • Queen Annes War 1702-1713 (War of Spanish
    Succession)
  • Fought when Louis XIV tries to put his Grandson
    on the throne of Spain

7
Treaty of Utrecht
  • England gets
  • Nova Scotia
  • Newfoundland
  • Hudson Bay area
  • limited trading rights in Spanish America

8
Clash of Empires
  • King Georges War1744-48 (War of Austrian
    Succession in Europe)
  • France and Spain against British (in North
    America)
  • Cape Breton Island.
  • Brits give it back in the peace treaty. (1748)
  • New Englanders outraged.

9
Background to French and Indian War
  • Ohio Valley dispute
  • Va. Governor Dinwitty sends militia and George
    Washington
  • Fort Necessity
  • GW forced to surrender after 10-hour siege
  • Unofficial start of the French and Indian War
    (Seven-Years War).

10
French and Indian War
  • In Europe, England and Prussia against France,
    Spain, Austria and Russia
  • In America, French and their Indian allies
    against British, colonists and their Indian allies

11
Albany Congress
  • 7 of 13 Colonies send reps.
  • Short-range purpose
  • Long-range purpose
  • Ben Franklins Plan

12
French and Indian War
  • Fort Duquesne
  • Battle of the Wilderness 7/9/55
  • Braddock
  • Brits pummeled
  • Washington a hero
  • Significance

13
French and Indian War
  • William Pitt new Prime Minister
  • Great Commoner
  • His policies toward war
  • Louisburg
  • James Wolfe Quebec

14
  • Treaty of Paris 1763
  • Canada seceded to Brit.
  • French forced to give Louisiana to Spain.
  • Spanish give Florida to the Brits.
  • France completely out of N.A.

15
Affects of War
  • 20,000 Americans fight in the war.
  • Colonies emerge with renewed confidence in their
    military abilities.
  • Myth of invincible Brit. troops shattered.
  • Brits have contempt for colonial militias.
  • Some colonists had not supported the war.
  • Greater Colonial Unity

16
Impact of War on Colonists
  • New sense of Freedom-French Gone
  • Feel less dependent on Brits
  • Want to spread into Ohio Valley
  • Indian threat reduced
  • Pontiacs Rebellion
  • Significance

17
Proclamation of 1763
  • What did it do?
  • What was Britains objective
  • How did the colonists react to it?

18
End of Chapter
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