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10 Cards in this Set
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Ohio Company
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-Lawerence and Augustine Washington
-Land Grant of 200,000 Acres from King of England -Land Grant was used for profit by colonists and served as a blockade from the French for Britain |
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Fort Duquesne
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-Built between rivers that formed the Ohio River
-Roger Dinwitty was apart of the Ohio Company and did not like that the French had built a fort on the company's land -Company sent a message to the French through a young boy named George Washington -After the French denied, Washington later returned with 160 Englishmen and Natives to "enforce" and make the French leave -Then dug Fort Necesscity |
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French and Indian War
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-French retaliate at For Necessity
-1st Battle of the War |
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Albany Plan
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-English needed colonist help
-Royally appointed president general -Grand council of 48 representatives -To consider questions of war, peace, and trade with Native Americans -Would have teh power of taxtation -Rejected by the colonies, they did not want to be "unified" by this agreement -Iriquios rejected aswell not wanting alliance with Britain |
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Seven Years War
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-English and Prussia against France, Austria and Spain
-Native Americans sided with French -Battle of Quebec (Death of General Wolfe) -Within 2 years the British took Fort Duquesne and named it Pittsburgh -1760 fighting in America ends, but continues elsewhere |
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Paris Treaty of 1763
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-England gained control of Canada/Florida/land before Mississippi River
-Put together by John Stewart, not Willaim Pitt |
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Pontiac
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-Chief in Northern Ohio
-Pontiac attacked English -Captured many settlements -400 British Soliders/ 200 colonists died or captured |
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Proclomation of 1763
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-Forbade colonists to settle past the line
-Reserved land for Native Americans |
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Paxton Boys
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-Uprising of Scotch-Irish
-Angry at lack of retaliation against Pontiac's Rebellion -Murdered 20 Natives -John Penn tried to try them for Natives murder -Ben Franklin intervened and prevents revolt |
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Legacies of French and Indian War
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-Removed the threat of French and Spanish
-Colonists felt more secure -developed mistrust between colonists and British military -British had gone deeply into debt |
