Post on 19-Jan-2016
The Duel & Road to RevolutionAP Chapters 6 & 7
Louis XIV – The Sun King
Quebec 1608 Samuel de
Champlain
Hurons Allied with French
to defeat their old enemy the Iroquois
In return, the Iroquois: Ravaged…. Slowed.. Served…
New France Primary source of
wealth: fur trade especially beavers
French fur trappers would travel extensively through North America
Jesuits French Catholic
missionaries that tried to convert the Indians
Filled vital role as explorers & geographers
Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit
La Salle founded the colony of Louisiana Later New Orleans is
established in 1718
King William’s WarQueen Anne’s WarKing George’s War
(War of Jenkins’s Ear)
The Seven YearsWar “French & Indian
War” 21 yr old George
Washington… Fort Necessity… July 4, 1754
French Acadians in Nova Scotia Brutally uprooted by
the British in 1775 Most sent to LA
(about 4,000) Today over a million
“Cajuns” there
Albany Plan of Union - 1754
The Real Fighting Begins… Braddock Pitt
The Plains of Abraham…
Treaty of Paris (1763) French Power fades
in North America… Proclamation Line of
1763 angers many… Marks the end of
salutary neglect…
Daniel Boone….
Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763 Ottawa Chief
leads a handful of tribes…
British send regular troops (want colonies to pay for them)….
Rebellion crushed but creates further problems…
Republicanism… Radical Whigs… Impact on the
Colonists… Plato
Mercantilism Advantages
Protection Assured Trade
Disadvantages Stifled Economy Currency Issues
Colonists used butter, nails, pitch & feathers
Adam Smith Scottish born “Father
of Economics” Argued against
Mercantilism in Wealth of Nations
Encouraged free trade
Prime MinisterGeorge Grenville Britain: Biggest
Empire and Biggest Debt Proclamation Line
(1763) Enforce Navigation
Laws Sugar Act (1764) Quartering Act (1765) Stamp Act (1765)
Colonial Reaction
Stamp Act Congress 1765 Largely Ignored but… Nonimportation
Agreements & Boycotts took their toll…
Sons of Liberty… 1766 Parliament
repeals the Stamp Act..
Passes the Declaratory Act
CharlesTownshend Townshend Acts
(1767) indirect tax on glass, paper, paint & tea….
George III “A good man, a bad
ruler” Townshend Acts
were a failure… repealed by Parliament – except for the 3 pence tax on tea…
Samuel Adams “Zealous, tenacious,
and courageous” he was a “master propagandist and engineer of rebellion”
Organized the Committees of Correspondence…
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) 1774
Boston Port Act… New Quartering Act… Quebec Act…
1st Continental Congress - 1774
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
April 1775 Lexington & Concord Minute Men… 8 Americans – 70
British killed…
EdmundBurke Led Whig
opposition…felt the battle for British freedom was being fought in America…