The Duel & Road to Revolution

The Duel & Road to RevolutionAP Chapters 6 & 7

Quebec 1608 Samuel de

Champlain

Hurons Allied with French

to defeat their old enemy the Iroquois

In return, the Iroquois: Ravaged…. Slowed.. Served…

New France Primary source of

wealth: fur trade especially beavers

French fur trappers would travel extensively through North America

Jesuits French Catholic

missionaries that tried to convert the Indians

Filled vital role as explorers & geographers

Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit

La Salle founded the colony of Louisiana Later New Orleans is

established in 1718

King William’s WarQueen Anne’s WarKing George’s War

(War of Jenkins’s Ear)

The Seven YearsWar “French & Indian

War” 21 yr old George

Washington… Fort Necessity… July 4, 1754

French Acadians in Nova Scotia Brutally uprooted by

the British in 1775 Most sent to LA

(about 4,000) Today over a million

“Cajuns” there

Albany Plan of Union - 1754

The Real Fighting Begins… Braddock Pitt

The Plains of Abraham…

Treaty of Paris (1763) French Power fades

in North America… Proclamation Line of

1763 angers many… Marks the end of

salutary neglect…

Daniel Boone….

Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763 Ottawa Chief

leads a handful of tribes…

British send regular troops (want colonies to pay for them)….

Rebellion crushed but creates further problems…

Republicanism… Radical Whigs… Impact on the

Colonists… Plato

Mercantilism Advantages

Protection Assured Trade

Disadvantages Stifled Economy Currency Issues

Colonists used butter, nails, pitch & feathers

Adam Smith Scottish born “Father

of Economics” Argued against

Mercantilism in Wealth of Nations

Encouraged free trade

Prime MinisterGeorge Grenville Britain: Biggest

Empire and Biggest Debt Proclamation Line

(1763) Enforce Navigation

Laws (1650) Sugar Act (1764) Quartering Act (1765) Stamp Act (1765)

Colonial Reaction

Stamp Act Congress 1765 Largely Ignored but… Nonimportation

Agreements & Boycotts took their toll…

Sons of Liberty… 1766 Parliament

repeals the Stamp Act..

Passes the Declaratory Act

CharlesTownshend Townshend Acts

(1767) indirect tax on glass, paper, paint & tea….

George III “A good man, a bad

ruler” Townshend Acts

were a failure… repealed by Parliament – except for the 3 pence tax on tea…

Samuel Adams “Zealous, tenacious,

and courageous” he was a “master propagandist and engineer of rebellion”

Organized the Committees of Correspondence…

Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) 1774

Boston Port Act… New Quartering Act… Quebec Act…

1st Continental Congress - 1774

The Shot Heard ‘Round the World

April 1775 Lexington & Concord Minute Men… 8 Americans – 70

British killed…

EdmundBurke Led Whig

opposition…felt the battle for British freedom was being fought in America…