KS+Chapter+6+Notes

Chapter 6 · France decided to take a foothold in the New World. Their permanent beginnings of a vast empire began at Quebec, a granite sentinel near the St. Lawrence River. The French took control of the Ohio River Valley. · The government of New France (Canada) fell under direct control of the King after various commercial companies had faltered or failed. · The population of Catholic New France grew at an extremely slow pace. In 1750 there were only sixty thousand or so whites that inhabited New France. Landowning French peasants had little economic motive to move. · New France contained one valued resource, which was the beaver. European fashion setters valued beaver pelt hats for their warmth and appearance. Fur trappers ranged over the woods and waterways of North America in search of beavers. The French even recruited Indians into the beaver business. They travelled vast distances deeper into North America in search of the sharp-tooth beaver. · Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit “the City of Straits”. · Robert de La Salle found a great interior basin near the gulf and Mississippi River that he named Louisiana. · The French and British are now fighting over the land, and have sent there Indian allies to fight for them. If you look on the map of British, French and Spanish control from 1700 (before) and 1713 (after), you can see that the British beat the French and its Spanish allies pretty badly. · In 1739 the war of Jenkins’s Ear broke out between the Spaniards, and the British. Once again France allied itself with Spain, and once again the British invaded New France. The war ended with the peace treaty of 1748. · In the Pennsylvania Gazette Benjamin Franklin, in order to have unity of all the colonies he presented his famous cartoon showing the separate colonies as parts of a disjointed snake. Its slogan was “Join or Die”. · The opening clashes of the French and Indian War didn’t go well for the British colonists. They sent out two thousand men to capture Fort Duquesne. On their way there, the slow moving army was attacked, and Braddock became mortally wounded. The British suffered lose after lose in both America and Europe. · Britain’s colonists arose with an increased confidence in their military strength. The British refused to recognize any American militia that was below the rank of captain. So all the men that put their lives on the line, including Colonel George Washington weren’t even thanked for their effort. The Spanish and Indian menaces were eliminated from Florida, and the French lost Quebec and Montreal, not knowing whether they were going to lose Canada or not.