NG+Chapter+6

__Chapter 6 __ · The Edict of Nantes granted limited toleration of French Protestants and this opened the door for French colonization in the New World · Louis XIV ruled for seventy-two years and had a deep interest in colonizing the New World · Samuel de Champlain was known as the “Father of New France” · French allied with the Huron tribe and the British allied with the Iroquois Indians · French government was purely under the king and they had no separate government at all ·  By 1750 only 60,000 whites inhabited New France · Indians contact with the French settlers wrecked the Indians traditions of living · <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">French Catholic missionaries tried converting many of the Indians and in the process ended up finding much land <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;">Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit and Robert de La Salle founded the Louisiana territory <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;">New Orleans and the bottom of the Mississippi territory became the center post for much of French trading in the New World <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 French and British got in a war for control of territories in the New World with King William’s War and Queen Anne’s 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;">The Peace of Utrecht in 1713 showed the great victory of Britain of France and Spain <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 War of Austrian Succession led to another British victory of Spain and France <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 British and the French both fought over the Ohio territory <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;">Virginian’s got legal rights to 500,000 acres of land and Washington went to secure these rights and on the way fired a shot the started the war between French and English <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 Seven Years War was France, Spain, Austria, and Russia against Britain and Prussia <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;">Due to France’s commitment to the European war they couldn’t send anyone to the New World which helped Britain <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;">Benjamin Franklin sent out the cartoon “Join or Die” which showed that if New England didn’t bring their colonies together they would all fall <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;">British at first had a horrible time trying to defeat the French forces <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 Battle of Quebec in 1759 was one of the most significant engagements in British and American history <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;">Due to the Treaty of Paris France was practically thrown off North America and Great Britain became the dominant power in North America <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;">By the end of the conflict Britain’s forces were so strong that about twenty thousand Americans were under arms <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 British found Americans to be no aid at all during these battles <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;">They called them the worst of the worst and scum and refused to commission officers above a colonel <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;">Americans felt they deserved better than this though which was another cause for the Revolutionary 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;">Americans smuggled goods to the French and Spanish Indies which aided them during the war which angered the British <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;">English Americans had to be bribed in order to serve towards the war against France and Spain <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 French and Indian War melted some of the barriers that colonies had between each other <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 Indians lost the power of negotiating with different European nations and now only can negotiate with Britain <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 British American takeover of French territories foreshadowed the American takeover of Britain <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;">Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe did a devastating attack on the Ohio territory and killed two thousand soldiers and settlers <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 Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the colonization past the Appalachian mountains in order to prevent further Indian attacks