Chapter+6

 The Duel for North America (1608-1763)
 * 1608- The French established a colony in Quebec. Grew slow. 1750- Only 60,000 whites inhabited New France.
 * Had a lot of beaver for trading.
 * 1689-1713 had two wars between France and Britain.
 * A treaty was signed in 1713 and the British had won. France and Spain allied.
 * 1754 was the start of George Washington’s history in Ohio.
 * French- Indian war- 1754. Broke into the Seven Years’ War which was a seven-sea war. Britain and Prussia were on one side and France, Spain Austria, and Russia. Badly for British Colonists.
 * 1756 Britain invaded Canada.
 * Battle of Quebec in 1759- One of the most significant engagements in British and American history.
 * British defeated the French in Canada. Spain and the Indian were reduced.
 * The Seven Years’ War caused colonists to develop a new vision of destiny.

· 1572 on St. Bartholomew day, over ten thousand Huguenots were butchered in cold blood. · Canada’s nickname at the time was “New France”. · In 1750, on 60 thousand whites live in “New France”. · Detroit had the nickname of “the city of straits”. · Detroit was founded in 1701. · Robert de La Salle sailed down the Mississippi and founded Louisiana. · New France founded New Orleans in 1718. · <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">French leader dies by George Washington’s minutemen. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">July 4th, 1754, the French captured Washington’s Fort Necessity. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">French and Indian was has started. Known in Europe as the Seven Year war. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">To get all of the colonies to fight together, Benjamin Franklin drew a cartoon of a snake divided into seven parts with the bottom saying Join or Die. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This was the most popular cartoon of the colonial era. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1757, Pitt became the leader of London’s government. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Pitt took over Louisburg in 1758. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> James Wolfe led the win of Quebec in 1759. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The peace settlement at Paris in 1763 made Canada French free. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Indians had no land left and had to consult with the British if they wanted land