The expansion to America across the Atlantic Ocean was a significant historical breakthrough at the time. Even though, half millennium before Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered America in 1492, Vikings where the first to set foot on the North American loam by their leader Leif Eriksson. The discovery of the new world was viewed by many world power country leaders as not only a financial opportunity but also control the flow of precious materials and trade goods coming out of the Western Hemisphere. Thus, Spain, France, and Britain were the primary colonizers of the new world. This colonization was a pivotal factor for America by establishing the first settlements, winning the economic and political tension against France, and gaining
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Primarily, because the continent had an abundance of natural resources, such as iron, wood, and furs, to utilize for the European nation. The country that had sovereignty over trade between the old and new world would obtain the status as a global empire because their population would expand due to their improved diets and their nations wealth would increase. Thus, Britain and France both wanted supremacy, which lead to economic and political tension. These disagreements over land ownership ultimately broke into war known as the French and Indian War in the 1756. George Washington, a twenty-one year old naive and inexperienced military official at the time was sent to inform the French they had to leave the fort they had just built and the land claimed by Virginia by the Governor Dinwiddie. The French refused this proposal making Dinwiddie’s desire to control the forks of Ohio enhance. Almost immediately after, Washington was appointed to Lieutenant Colonel where he and his Indian Allies, lead by Tanaghrisson or the Half King, marched to build a new fort, Fort Necessity. Unmistakably, there was a high French populace in the area and conflict arose between the two opponents which ended in the massacre of the French Commander, Ensign Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville by Tanaghrisson. This engagement intensified the tension between Britain, France, and the Indians. Subsequently, the war ended after the Treaty of Paris in 1763, and after Pontiac failed on the attack on Fort Detroit from Great Britain and the Indian power ceased in the Ohio Valley. However, conflicts between Britain and the Indians were still evident, and Great Britain needed to reduce military spending to lesson the economic depression that was steadily extending from war. Thus, the Proclamation of 1763 was issued on October 7 by King George III. The Proclamation reestablished the prior promises
Primarily, because the continent had an abundance of natural resources, such as iron, wood, and furs, to utilize for the European nation. The country that had sovereignty over trade between the old and new world would obtain the status as a global empire because their population would expand due to their improved diets and their nations wealth would increase. Thus, Britain and France both wanted supremacy, which lead to economic and political tension. These disagreements over land ownership ultimately broke into war known as the French and Indian War in the 1756. George Washington, a twenty-one year old naive and inexperienced military official at the time was sent to inform the French they had to leave the fort they had just built and the land claimed by Virginia by the Governor Dinwiddie. The French refused this proposal making Dinwiddie’s desire to control the forks of Ohio enhance. Almost immediately after, Washington was appointed to Lieutenant Colonel where he and his Indian Allies, lead by Tanaghrisson or the Half King, marched to build a new fort, Fort Necessity. Unmistakably, there was a high French populace in the area and conflict arose between the two opponents which ended in the massacre of the French Commander, Ensign Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville by Tanaghrisson. This engagement intensified the tension between Britain, France, and the Indians. Subsequently, the war ended after the Treaty of Paris in 1763, and after Pontiac failed on the attack on Fort Detroit from Great Britain and the Indian power ceased in the Ohio Valley. However, conflicts between Britain and the Indians were still evident, and Great Britain needed to reduce military spending to lesson the economic depression that was steadily extending from war. Thus, the Proclamation of 1763 was issued on October 7 by King George III. The Proclamation reestablished the prior promises