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Chapter 6 Notes

Duel for North America 1608-1763 **-France finds foothold in Canada**
 * St. Bart’s day 1572 10K Huguenots butchered
 * 1598 religious wars ceased
 * 1608 Quebec colony founded on St. Lawrence River
 * Clashed with multiple Indian tribes
 * 1750s around 60K people inhabiting New France
 * -New France Fans out **
 * Beaver- most valuable resource
 * Indians outrages at French fur trappers actions
 * Catholic missionaries labored to save Indians for Christ
 * Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit in 1701
 * French planted posts in Mississippi and Louisiana
 * -Clash of Empires **
 * King Williams war 1689-1697
 * Peace terms signed in 1713 revealed devastation of France and Spain
 * 1713 British also gained limiting trading routes with Spanish America
 * Peace treaty 1748 handed Louisburg back to French
 * 1740-1748 War of Austrian Succession
 * 1756-1763 Seven years war
 * -Washington inaugurates war with France **
 * Ohio valley contended between French and British
 * 1754 Virginia governor pushed Washington into spotlight
 * Washington was sent to Ohio Country as lieutenant colonel
 * -Global war and colonial disunity **
 * 1st three Anglo French colonial wars all started in Europe
 * Britain, Prussia against France, Spain, Austria, Russia
 * 1754 British Gov’t summoned intercolonial meeting and bolstered the common defense
 * -Braddock’s Blunder and Its aftermath **
 * General Braddock set out with 2000 men
 * George Washington had 4 bullet holes in his coat, and had 2 horses shot from underneath him
 * Indians devastated the 2000 men of Braddock
 * British launched full scale invasion of Canada 1756
 * -Pitt’s palms of victory **
 * William Pitt known as the Great Commoner, great orator
 * 1757 Pitt became foremost leader in London Gov’t
 * Pitt dispatched powerful expedition in 1758 against Louisburg
 * Battle of Quebec 1759 most significant engagement in British and American History
 * -Restless Colonists **
 * Britain’s had increased confidence in their military
 * French Indian war shattered myth of British invincibility
 * Military seen as lazy, only when paid did they take action (900K pounds)
 * -Main Dates **
 * 1718 French found New Orleans
 * 1744-1748 King George’s War
 * 1755 Braddock’s defeat
 * 1759 Battle of Quebec
 * 1763 Peace of Paris, Pontiac’s uprising