First Colonisation of America - 1700s

Question 1

Why was immigration to America from England encouraged?

Answer 1

• New business opportunities.
• The independence that land ownership offered.

Question 2

What was the early years of contact like between the British and the Woodland people?

Answer 2

• Friendly and peaceful. Europeans had superior weapons but were in an unknown land.
• Evidence for this are treaties.

Question 3

What was traded during the initial stages of contact?

Answer 3

Cloth, metal tools and utensils traded for beaver and raccoon skins.

Question 4

What was significant about the Seven Years War?

Answer 4

• Ending in 1763, the Treaty of Paris began the nation building of America.
• The British gained more land and didn’t give any to the Native Americans even though they helped to fight the war.

Question 5

What started Pontiac’s War?

Answer 5

• The bad treatment of Native Americans from the British.

Question 6

What happened during Pontiac’s War?

Answer 6

• The Native Americans caught and killed hundreds of British.
• The British used biowarfare (smallpox infested blankets).
• Ended with the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which created a boundary between the colonists and native Americans.

Question 7

What is mercantilism?

Answer 7

An economic policy whereby lots of exports are being sent from the motherland to colonies:
- maximise exports (what you send out)
- minimise imports (what you bring in).
- Encourages imperialism

Question 8

What was the result of mercantilism?

Answer 8

• Upset settlers in the 13 colonies because they were working hard to produce goods/pay taxes for Britain, but weren’t receiving anything in return.
• Part of the reason for War of Independence

Question 9

What was the War of Independence?

Answer 9

A war between North America and Britain for America’s independence.

Question 10

Why did America want to be independent from Britain?

Answer 10

• “No taxation without representation.”
• They wanted to make their own decisions.
• General George Washington led the troops in the colonies and won.

Question 11

How did the War of Independence impact the process of colonisation?

Answer 11

• ‘manifest destiny’, the expansion of white settlement in North America began.
• Settlers’ belief in the destiny of their new nation and in their duty to colonise.
• It was destined by God to expand and spread capitalism/democracy.
• Values reflected in the U.S Constitution.