The Duel for North America

Chapter 6 review* Specific events (laws, acts, skirmishes) that eventually led to the Revolutionary War (chapters 6,7)

Early Concerns

• Peace after King William’s War (1689-1697) & Queen Anne’s War 1702-1713) in New World

• War of Jenkins’ Ear (King Georges War) 1739 Spanish and British

French and Indian War

• War of the Conquest, The Seven Years War

• Started by 21 year old Washington

• Ohio Valley

• Virginians fired 1st shots- kill French leader

• Provide protection for colonies

Results of The French & Indian War

• Nearly bankrupts Britain

• Kicks French out of North America

• Spain gains land west of Mississippi

• Spain trades Florida for Cuba

• British need money

• Raise taxes from the wealthy colonists

Greatest Impact of French and Indian War

• United Colonists to some degree

• Intercolonial congress• Fate of Native

Americans

• Discovered “American” traits

• Proclamation of 1763