French and Indian War Flashcards
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Pitt & the Iroquois
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- 1757 Pitt receives support from Iroquois once British started winning
- 1759 British victory
- 1763 Treaty of Paris: Spain gets French lands west of Mississippi, GB gets lands east, France left with Newfoundland and West Indies)
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Rivals for an Empire
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- France vs Britain 1750s Ohio River Valley
- colonists allied with British; French friendlier with Native Americans
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Victory Brings New Problems
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- 1763 Pontiac rebels
- Native Americans defeated: disease
- Proclamation of 1763: banned settlement west of Appalachians (ineffective)
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Problems Resulting from War
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- troops viewed as threatening to colonists
- national debt doubled from all the wars
- Sugar Act 1764: duty on foreign made molasses, tax imports, anti-smuggling
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Albany Plan of Union
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Centralization of colonial governments
