French and Indian War

ethnocentrism, understandings of scalping, both past and present, have most commonly presented the practice as the embodiment of Indian savagery and cruelty. Much more than evidence of Indian warfare’s barbarism, however, scalping was a vital part of the nuanced and dynamic relationship that defined the colonial and Indian experience in early America. As the symbiosis that tied Indians and colonials changed, so did the function of scalping in the colonial period up through the early nineteenth…

Constitution Convention meet to write The Constitution of the United States of America. In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and discovered the Americas, leading to France, and Europe to come to the New World. In 1532 the French discovered and made a claim to Canada, and when elected in 1558 Queen Elizabeth lead the English to make expeditions to America. There were many reasons why people began to come to America, some came due to religious persecution, some because…

When the Europeans colonized North America, the Native Americans and the Europeans actually formed a sort of partnership and mutual understanding to each other. The Europeans learned to get along with the Indian tribes through gifts and tributes to the chiefs of the Indian tribes. This partnership eventually began to decline and fail when the British and American populations grew in the region. Their presence helped destroy the partnership because of many reasons. The first reason this…

because they give them something to sell therefore they get stuff back) Did you know that this was extremely popular at style in Europe in the 1600´s. Everyone wanted one. Then, their was the Hudson Bay Company. This group was formed in Europe. The French, Natives, and English shared this land together. The land was given to Canada by the English King. Last, is the Huron Tribe. The Huron Tribe was a very gentle tribe. They…

regions a bit more West. Samuel de Champlain was a key player and founded the first permanent French settlement in 1608 in Quebec, and established a fur trade with the region’s Native American tribes. By the end of the 17th century the French was in control of the St. Lawrence River, the Mississippi River, and the Great Lakes. It was interesting to read that out of all the European colonial powers, the French had the best relationship with Native Americans. Although it may have seemed like the…

One of the events that catalyzed this expansion was the War of 1812. The war is sometimes called “America’s second war for independence” because Great Britain was still interfering with American affairs though it had gained independence from them less than forty years preceding the next war (Feicht). It was a war that should never have had to be fought if Britain had just understood that it…

This film should not be taken to be a completely accurate view of the American Revolutionary war, and…

her followers were unfortunately banished by John Winthrop Third Anglo-Powhatan War- lasting from 1644 until 1646, this war was caused but the attack of powhatan warriors on Virginians. this attack was sparked but land taken from them because the colonists needed more land to grow…

It was six years later, during the Seven Years’ War that Bermudian privateers found themselves again trying to bolster Britain’s naval forces. As previously mentioned, the relations between France and Britain after the War of Austrian Succession were far from affable and shifting loyalties amidst the nations of Europe eventually sparked the powder keg of war. The Seven Years War in particular was hugely important in terms of British Maritime power. “Control of the sea was instrumental to the…

because of recently winning the war, which caused for bitterness in the troops. The reactions of the French were a suffering at obviously not winning in the war. Their territory had been lost and they were feeling extremely defeated at losing to people who did not have an established, large government and military, but militias and pride. The Kind of France pressured the settlers of France to return home as quickly as they could. The Americans realized that the French friendship was worthless…