4-4 Test Flashcards
(26 cards)
King Philip’s War
Began 1675 Ended 1676
King Philip’s War CAUSES
•Colonists hunger for land
•Tension caused by two cultures’ different:
-ways of life
-concepts of land use
•friction caused by competition for resources
(ex: land for planting, hunting & fishing)
Battles of KPW took place in:
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- New Hampshire
Alexander Spotswood
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1718
* Warned British that FRENCH were building MANY FORTS near the colonies
French complained about…
English settlements + activities on Lake Ontario
King Philip
- Puritan’s nickname for Metacom
* Leader of the Wampanoags
Great Lakes were…
a source of tension with BOTH European powers (England + France)
A war would break out when…
Both England and France tried establishing military posts deep on the Ohio River Valley
Duquesne de Menneville
- French governor of Canada
* 1752 - ordered construction of a new chain of forts from Lake Erie, south to the Ohio River
Robert Dinwiddie
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
- Not happy when he learned about French forts
- Sent a planter/surveyor George Washington to warn the French they were TRESPASSING
- Duquesne de Menneville REJECTED his message
1754 Robert Dinwiddie..
sent another group of VA to:
•build a fort where 3 rivers join
-Monongahela River
-Allegheny River
-Ohio River
•ordered Lieutenant Colonel GW to protect the unfinished fort from French attack
•French captured unfinished fort and called it Fort Duquesne
Fort Necessity
- defensive post set up by GW
- French surrounded fort and followed all day battle
- GW surrendered to French
- British left but French kept land
French + Indian War
•1754-1763 French colonists = 70,000 British colonists = 1.5 million Brits outnumbered French •many Native Americans sided with French -French were kind and didn't force them to give up there land or way of life •British lost most battles
William Pitt
- British secretary of state
- Took over managing the French + Indian War effort
- Turned the tide of the war!
1758
Brits captured Fort Duquesne + named it Fort Pitt
The Plains of Abraham (1759)
- Site of most decisive battle of French + Indian War
- Quebec, Canada
- British General Wolfe + French Commander Montcalm were killed in this battle
- British captured Quebec
- War started on this continent but spread to Europe
Seven Year War
war in europe 1754-1763
-in 1762 Spain entered the conflict on the side of the French
(Britain captured its colonies in Cuba + the Philippine Islands)
1763
The British won the war + acquired France’s territory in..
-Canada
-most of its claims in the Mississippi + Ohio River Valleys
Spain turned over..
-Florida
-The Gulf Coast of the Mississippi River
Long-term consequences of the French + Indian War
- ) British soldiers and sailors had done most of the fighting
- ) The Royal Treasury (England) had paid most of the bills
- ) The Brits did not allow the colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains (They could not afford to keep fighting the Native Americans)
The English (FIW)
- outnumbered French
- had a few Iroquois Indians
- supplies didn’t arrive
- faced a rough terrain
The French (FIW)
- help from Native Americans
- strategically placed forts
- strong relations
- more allies + supplies
Braddock’s first goal as commander
March his force through the wilderness to Ft. Duquesne and take it from the French
Problems Braddock faced:
- rough terrain (wait for road)
- late supplies
- ambushed by French + Indians
- red uniforms
- only 8 Iroquois helped
- soldiers fell ill
William Pitt
- British secretary of state
- Took over managing the French + Indian War effort
- Turned the tide of the war!
