Deca History Flashcards
Native American Social Groups
Tribe, clan, village, chiefdom, confederacy
Diseases and %
smallpox, 90%
tribes interacting with Jamestown
Powhatan (Algonquian language)
tribes interacting with Plymouth
Pequots and Narragansetts (Algonquian language)
three sisters
beans, corn, squash
King Phillip’s War
Powhatan confederacy, Wampanoag led by Metacomet opposed Puritans
Iroquois Confederacy nations
Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Tuscarora (joined in 1722)
2 advantages Iroquois Confederacy had in interaction with Europeans
- more inland, had time to observe
- key positions straddling French, English, and Dutch land claims
British vs French Colonial Population
over 2 million vs 65,000,
protestant vs catholic
trade with Native Americans
cloth, kettles, axes, fishhooks, guns (metallurgy),
glass beads and copper ornaments (for religious ceremonies)
French-Native relations
3 g’s, long-term engagement, fur trade and intermarriage,
Father Paul Le Jeune (Jesuit)
spent 17 years in New France, published “The Jesuit Relations” from 1632 to 1673- efforts to convert natives, marketing tool to entice settlers,
praised Natives for physical strenght, intelligence, contentment, and diplomacy
criticized for arrogant, proud, vindictive, and lacking compassion
English-Native Relations
displacement, did not interact as much
believed Indians did not improve the land
gained land through purchase in treaties after military defeat
“What then is the American, this new man?”
Michel Crevecoeur, french
Colonial demographics
English less than 2/3 of colonial population, German and Scots-Irish composing rest of white population, 1/5 African
Anglicization
British Identity- political/judicial structures, material culture (clothes and tea), economic systems, religion, engagement with British gov
Seven Year’s War
first NA war not an outgrowth of European disputes (first 3), fur traders in PA and VA wanted Ohio River Valley, Secured 200,000 acres with Ohio Company, opposed by French forts along Allegheny River
Albany Congress
June 19-July 11, 1754, 7/13 colonies debated relations w French and Natives
No reps from NJ, DE, and southern
sought treaty with Iroquois, defense measures against French Canada
model for Stamp Act Congress (1765) and First Continental Congress (1774)
Join or Die
Benjamin Franklin, 1754, unite colonies in French and Indian War
Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin’s Plan for unified colonial government: 2-7 delegates from each colony with a president appointed by British monarch, rejected
inspired by Iroquois
Battle of Jumonville Glen
1753: Gov. Robert Dinwiddie (investor in Ohio Company) sent GW
GW attacked French on May 27, 1754, but defeated at Fort Necessity, beginning war
British Strategy in 7 years war
global war in NA, Caribbean, Europe, LATAM, APAC
British, Spanish, Germans vs French + Indians (Algonquian)
British defeats at Ft Oswego and Ft William Henry
Turning point: 1758, PM William Pitt takes over and commits more to NA, took Louisburg (French Canada, strategic port on St. Lawrence River)
Treaty of Paris 1763
French colonial holding divided by Britain (Quebec and Ohio Valley) and Spain (New Orleans), French only have Caribbean
Britain close to bankruptcy and many new subjects
Pontiac’s War 1763
Chief Pontiac of Ottawa allied w Shawnee, Wyandot, Seneca, Cayuga, and Delaware
to attack Ft Detroit and other forts N of Ft Pitt and W of Ft Niagara, 600 killed/captured but ran out of supplies in 1764, formal surrender in 1766