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Discuss the French and Indian War. What were the causes of the French and Indian War? What were the conditions of the Peace of Paris? What were the political and economic issues that Britain had to deal with as a result of the war? Also, you may chose to examine the significant personalities.
Discuss the French and Indian War. What were the causes of the French and Indian War? What were the conditions of the Peace of Paris? What were the political and economic issues that Britain had to deal with as a result of the war? Also, you may chose to examine the significant personalities.
Address pre- and post-1763 British policies toward the American colonies. What
was the reaction of the colonists? Were they justified? Were the British
justified in enforcing the policies?
Discuss the reasons and time period for the the First and Second Continental Congresses. Who attended these meetings and why? The First and Second Continental Congresses were
shaped by disputes between moderates, radicals, and conservatives. Discuss the
positions of the three factions and explain which was the most persuasive and
effective in achieving its goals (include the goals). What documents were written in each of the Congresses?
One of the causes of the French and Indian war was the fact that France and Britain were world rivals. They were fighting each other over lands in India and the Caribbean too. The French and Indian War was part of a Global conflict between the 2 countries for dominance in trade and political power
ReplyDeleteJust like the French and British had been feuding in the Caribbeans, India, and Europe, the British colonists and French settlers were feuding over the lands of the Ohio River Valley. This led directly to the war when French fort settlements had been attacked in their claimed lands in the Ohio River Valely
DeleteThe French and Indian War was only the American stage of the Seven Years war, which was one of the first truly global war, as it involved most of Europe, the Americans, and the Caribbean Sea. The Seven Years was lasted from 1756-1763, the same time frame as the French and Indian War. Although the Seven Years war was a global war, the French and Indian War only involved Britian, France, colonists, and several Native American tribes.
DeleteOh I forgot to add that Britain and France were also fighting in Africa and India.
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The french and Indian war was a war that started due to the expansion of the French to the Ohio River Valley which the English also noticed and wanted. They also did not want the French to take over the Americas because they viewed a vast British Empire in the Americas. The Peace of paris was signed in 1763, the British received Canada from France and Florida from Spain, but permitted France to keep its West Indian sugar islands and gave Louisiana to Spain. The treaty strengthened the American colonies significantly by removing their European rivals to the north and south and opening the Mississippi Valley to westward expansion. And as a result of the war when you combine the colonists together with the hatred of the British after the war you get the want for Independence and even though countless efforts were made (the acts, laws, proclamations) to stop either side from splitting the revolutionary war still took place.
ReplyDeletePrior to the end of the French and Indian war in 1763 Britain's policies towards the Colonies were rather lenient. Britain had allowed for the US to trade with foreign countries even those countries that Britain had been feuding with such as Spain and France. Following the end of the French and Indian war, Britain's policies concerning the Americas began to be much more stringent. The Colonists were widely upset with the new British policies which they felt unnecessary and as impeding on their rights.
ReplyDeleteI think your blog post would be much more effective in what your trying to say if you took it one step further by instead of calling it policies and going ahead and calling it what it really was by stating it being Salutary Neglect. however, with that said it was a very good blog and actually provoked me into thinking about what I could talk about.
DeleteOne of the consequences after the French and Indian war was the creation of the mindest by the colonists that because of their efforts, not the efforts of the British, rather that led them to victory was that now that Great Britian had a huge amount of war debt, Britian needed to find a way to decrease this "dead weight" and they felt that because the war went on in the Hudson Valley region located in the colonies and that they came to the aid of the colonies. Great Britian decided to forcefully declare that the colonists needed to pay for the war debt. Great Britian did this through a series of taxes . However, the colonies with their new im as big and as bad as the motherland mindset were starting to feel that mabey they didnt need Great Britian after all and so thus this consequence, and new mindset by the colonies drove their course of action into revolution in the years to come.
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Also, the colonists began to realize that they had more in common with each other than they previously thought. Prior to the French and Indian War, the colonists had not intermingled: a person from Georgia would never meet someone from Massachusetts. However, after the war, when colonists were thrown into one big mix (the army they fought in), they began to socialize, and realized that they had common interests. This encouraged their later ideas that they could all unite to dispel Great Britain.
DeleteThe first Continental Congress met in 1774 in response to the Intolerable Acts enacted by the British. (The acts were more like a punishment on Americans because of the Botson Tea Party and other instances). After agreeing to boycott British good, they eneded the meeting but agreed that they would reconvene if Great Britian did not address them and if nothing changed. This led to the second Continetal Congress, which commenced after the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775.
ReplyDeleteThe Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved slowly towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties, the Congress acted as the de facto national government of what became the United States.
ReplyDeleteNearly a full year before formally adopting the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress issued forth two other documents. The first, issued July 6, 1775, was the Declaration for the Causes of Taking Up Arms, and attempted to explain why the colonies had felt justified in fighting at Lexington and Concord. The second, issued July 8, 1775, was the Olive Branch Petition, which was penned in response to fears of the King misreading the Declaration for the Causes of Taking Up Arms, and thus professed firm loyalty to the crown and begged the King to prevent further hostilities.
DeleteAnother one of the main causes of the French and Indian War was a territory dispute between France and Britain. The Ohio River valley was a useful and coveted trade route. It served to transport wood and furs from the French-controlled area of Canada all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Since the French controlled Louisiana and the St. Lawrence River, both ends of the trade route, they claimed it as their own, and sought to use it for their own shipping purposes. The British, however, claimed that their colonies' territory extended all the way to the Pacific coast, and thus by default the Ohio River Valley belonged to them. Because of the French/British rivalry, if one country controlled the route, they would not let the other country use it. This conflict led to larger and larger disagreements, and, eventually, war.
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ReplyDeleteThe Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 and limited French presence in the Caribbean, India, and North America, although they were allowed to keep New Orleans. This later allowed Thomas Jefferson to purchase New Orleans along with the Louisiana Territory in 1803. Once the Treaty of Paris was signed and the war was official finished, Britain was left with a massive debt, over 133 million pounds. To combat the debt from the war, Britain made colonists foot the bill by creating several taxes, which led to the American Revolution. This economic consequence of the war led to America's independence.
ReplyDeleteThe British felt justified in the creation of the taxes set upon American colonists because British citizens had been paying similar taxes for many years previously. The colonists felt justified in their ignoring of the taxes since they did not have to pay such tariffs in prior years before the French and Indian War.
DeleteOne of the British's post-war policies toward the colonists was the Proclamation of 1763. A British attempt at preventing any more Indian rebellions in the wake of Pontiac's uprising, it prohibited settlement of the lands beyond the Appalachian mountains. The colonists saw it as an outrage, since they believed they earned the right to settle those lands through birth and blood in the recent war.
ReplyDeleteNot only did the British want to stop the Indian rebellions, they wanted to establish relations with the Native Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
DeleteWhat were the political and economic issues that Britain had to deal with as a result of the war?
ReplyDeleteBritain's win against France and Spain in the Seven Year's War was a bittersweet victory. As conditioned by the 1763 Treaty of Paris, Britain gained all of Canada, Florida, and Louisiana east of the Mississippi (minus New Orleans), and thus became the dominant power in North America. But gaining this land came at a cost - approximately £140 million - and Britain needed some way to pay off this debt. The next year, the Sugar Act entered the stage, and well, we all know what happens next. Before the taxing began, however, the colonists had initialized the flood of settlers into the Ohio River Valley, consequently sparking Pontiac's Uprising (1763). Once the British quelled the uprising (barely), they issued the Proclamation of 1763, thus infuriating the colonists who felt they had every right to inhabit the land as it had been paid for mostly with their own blood. Britain therefore had laid the groundwork for a substantial political problem to come - the American Revolution.
A cause for the French and Indian War.
ReplyDeleteIn 1754, English forces under George Washington had begun their march to Fort Duquesne for the purpose of pushing the French out of the region by force. On the way, they encountered a French scouting party near present day Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Washington's men massacred the party and this event came to be known as the Battle of Junomville Glen. Washington soon took camp and ordered the construction of Fort Necessity in waiting for a French response. The French responded with 600 soldiers and forced Washington to surrender.
Jumonville Glen was a 15 minute skirmish that happened on May 28, 1754 that was practically in the middle of nowhere. There was less than 100 men on each side and it did not receive its name until a famous French commander was killed there. Here George Washington saw his first combat and commanded men in battle for the first time.
DeleteThe First Continental Congress was the government of the 12 colonies (excluding Georgia) from 1774 to 1789. It was made up of delegates from the colonies. They held a meeting in response to the Coercive Acts that were being pushed on the colonies by Britain in response to their resistance to them. Their goal was that they wanted to resolve the differences between them and Great Britain. After the American Revolutionary War the Second Continental Congress was established in 1775. A year after being established they had the goal and idea of becoming independent from Britain. They also created the Continental Army and named George Washington as their officer in command.
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