from comfort to discontent
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From Comfort to Discontent. How did obedient little colonists get so freakin ’ mad?!?. Economic Strain. Three different sections of original 13 colonies: North, Middle, South Navigation Acts, 1660 Good for most, bad for New England/North colonies (no crops to sell back). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
From Comfort to Discontent
How did obedient little colonists get so freakin’ mad?!?
Economic Strain Three different sections of original 13
colonies: North, Middle, South Navigation Acts, 1660
Good for most, bad for New England/North colonies (no crops to sell back)
Colonies Become More Independent
Virginia House of Burgesses
Loser governors from England didn’t have any real power
The Plot Thickens…Euro Land Disputes Britain and France STILL hated each
other… Both wanted Ohio Valley Geo. Washington against the French…
Frenchies win Native Americans choose the French side
(duh!)
Red Uniforms BADSmart commander GOOD Start of war, British
lost many battles--stood out like ducks in a gallery
New guy (James Wolfe) turns the tide
Quebec taken! <Sacré bleu!>
War Ends, Problems Begin France loses most of (now) U.S.
territory Britain is most powerful nation in
world (Mua ha ha!) Native Americans got the most raw
deal Pontiac’s “Conspiracy”
Proclamation of 1763 (Important…hint, hint…) Colonists could not go west of Appalachian
crest Indian reservation (for now…)
Wasn’t land what the colonists were fighting for all along?!
After the War, Colonists Frustrated British troops to “keep peace” in colonies,
paid for by…colonists?! First of many unpopular British political
moves that eventually led to Revolution