EH-Chapter+6

CH6 · England, France, and Spain all wanted control of North America and fought four world wars for it. · Quebec was established in 1608 by the French. · New France fell to the English king. · New France’s beaver was like tobacco to the South. · Beaver pelts were traded frequently to make warm hats and use as a fashion material. · The French spread many place names. · French recruited some Indians to trap beavers and trek across what is now Canada and farther. · Jesuits converted few Indians but mapped and explored many places. · Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit, Robert de La Salle founded Louisiana. · French made many posts in Mississippi and Louisiana. In order to try and block out Spain. · Britain and France didn’t think America was such a big deal so they didn’t send very many troops in order to fight. They allied with Indians and had short fights in the streets. · France allied with Spain in order to fight against Britain. · Britain defeated France and Spain and were awarded huge amounts of land under the peace treaty at Utrecht in 1713. · The War of Jenkins’s Ear in the Caribbean merged with the War of Austrian Succession and was then called King George’s War. · Again, France and Spain joined up to take on Britain in this war. · A peace treaty in 1748 gave France Louisburg. · George Washington was sent to take Virginia’s claims in the Ohio Country. He and his men came across a section of French soldiers and shot the first shots f the “new war” and were able to shoot and kill the French leader. The French came back, surrounded Washington and his men forcing him to surrender and march his men home with honor. · French and Indian war started with George Washington in the Ohio Valley in 1754. · French and Indian War turned into the Seven Years War fought in America, Europe, the West Indies, the Philippines, Africa, and on the Ocean. · In Europe, it was Britain and Prussia against France, Spain, Austria, and Russia. · The British called a meeting in Albany to convince the Indians to ally with Britain and gave them thirty wagons filled with gifts. · Ben Franklin drew the “Join, or Die” cartoon in the Pennsylvania Gazette depicting the colonies. · Braddock was sent to take over the French Fort Duquesne but was defeated and wounded when he found a small French/ Indian army on his way to the fort. · The British invaded all of Canada and kept getting defeated because instead of focusing just on Montreal and Quebec, they went after multiple small posts at once. · Pitt sent an attack on Louisburg in 1758 and was successful. · Next, Quebec was targeted with Commander James Wolfe. Wolfe was killed along with the French commander but the British won in 1759. · Peace settlement in Paris in 1763 left Canada. · Great Britain was the power leader in America. · Britain began to forbid the export of food and other materials from New England and the other colonies. · Many colonies and people did not work well together because they were vastly separate by lakes and rivers and because many of them had different religiouns. · Eventually these people realized that they were similar and began to unify. · Spain had to leave Florida and the Indians no longer had allies. · Proclamation of 1763 was meant to stop people from settling west of the Appalachians for fear of another Indian War.