The Duel & Road to Revolution AP Chapters 6 & 7
Louis XIV – The Sun King
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 War Queen Anne’s War King George’s War (War of Jenkins’s Ear)
The Seven Years War “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
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 Minister George Grenville Britain: Biggest Empire and Biggest Debt Proclamation Line (1763) Enforce Navigation Laws 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
Charles Townshend 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George III “A good man, a bad ruler” Townshend Acts were a failure… repealed by Parliament – except for the 3 pence tax on tea…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…
1 st Continental Congress
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
April 1775 Lexington & Concord Minute Men… 8 Americans – 70 British killed…
Edmund Burke Led Whig opposition…felt the battle for British freedom was being fought in America…