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APUSH Topic 3.2: The Seven Year's War
(The French and Indian War)
- After the British victory, imperial officials’ attempts
to prevent colonists from moving westward
generated colonial opposition, while native groups
sought to both continue trading with Europeans and
resist the encroachments of colonists on tribal lands.
- Nedin called for all Indians
to reject white way, &
white goods
- Pontiac’s Rebellion
- Iroquois attemps to remains neutral and sustains control
over European trade good/furs
- Proclamation
Line of 1763
- Troops stationed in frontier forts to prevent another
Pontiac's Rebellion
- Colonial rivalry intensified between Britain and France in
the mid-18th century, as the growing population of the
British colonies expanded into the interior of North
America, threatening French–Indian trade networks and
American Indian autonomy.
- After being nearly
assaulted by French,
Iroquois moved away
from English alliance and
played French and
English off against each
other
- While Iroquois tried to remain neutral (they
accepted gifts, or formed covenant chain with
individual colonies)
- Wars with Native
Americans caught between
imperial powers, although
many preferred the French
- This had been due to
the ever-rising number
of British colonists who
wanted their land more
than their furs
- Period from 1689 through 1815, Second
Hundred Years War between Britain
and France
- King William’s War / Queen Anne’s War
/ King George’s War
- Britain achieved a major expansion of its
territorial holdings by defeating the
French, but at tremendous expense,
setting the stage for imperial efforts to
raise revenue and consolidate control over
the colonies.
- Revenue Act of 1762
- Treaty of Paris
- Enormous debt, new
empires, and decisions to
assert control
- Led to end of salutary neglect, &
attempts to tax the colonies
- Currency Act of 1764
- Troops stationed in frontier forts to prevent
another Pontiac's Rebellion