180085
British conquest of France's North American Empire
- Frontier
- short term causes
- New France was a small colony/New England was a large colony
- New England had a large fighting force/New France had a small one
- Need for strategic positions for fur trade and protection
- Use of traditional fighting strategies instead of guerilla warfare and poor battle choices by France
- disagreement around borderlands
- Ohio company
- Vauderville and Montcalm not being able to agree
- people of Quebec were faced with rationing/starvation/typhus and an army on their door
- luck on the part of Britain in landing unnoticed, etc
- New France was a small colony/New England was a large colony
- long term causes
- colonization and expansion
- increased wealth
- wanting access to prime agricultural land for growing colonies
- colonization and expansion
- short term causes
- Metropolitan
- short term causes
- Britain had superior navel power
- steady stream of military and supplies
- blockades of French supplies
- steady stream of military and supplies
- New FRance was still economically dependant on Mother Country/New England was not
- Treaty of Utretcht
- Dispute around boundaries of land given by France in the treaty
- Dispute around boundaries of land given by France in the treaty
- Britain had superior navel power
- Long term causes
- France was not interested in colonization but saw Canada as strategic
- needed land due to overcrowding and famine
- War of Austrian Sucession
- France and Britain Rivalry in competing for supremacy in Europe
- colonization/mercantilism push
- need for fish (protein) in home country
- France was not interested in colonization but saw Canada as strategic
- short term causes
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