warm-up 1.what 3 countries during the colonial period have been fighting for control of the north...
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Warm-up
1. What 3 countries during the colonial period have been fighting for control of the North America?
2. What other people might be involved in these conflicts?
Competition Over North America
• France, Spain, and England all control colonies in North America
• France – All land west of west of Appalachian Mountains
• English – 13 Colonies
• Spain – Florida and the Southeast
Why?
• All desire natural resources– Commodity – goods
bought or sold for profit
– France and England compete for the Ohio River Valley fur trade
War!• Both England and France push
into the Ohio River Valley• England sends a young George
Washington to claim the territory from France
• French respond by reinforcing positions along the Ohio River
• Washington captured and forced back to Virginia; England declares war
Washington, Lieutenant Colonel in English Colonial Army
Albany Plan
Plan formulated by early colonials (Ben Franklin) to have a centralized government for the 13 colonies. Plan ultimately never became a reality but paved the way for bigger things later.
The French and Indian War
• 1754 -1763• France allies with
Indian Tribes• England eventually
wins the war• England suffers heavy
debts (bankrupt)
Proclamation Line of 1763• Created to stabilize relations with Native Americans and to reorganize the British colonies
Causes of the American Revolution
• England passes acts to regulate/tax colonistsCauses of the American Revolution
1. Navigation Acts – English monopolize trade with colonies
2. Sugar Act (1764)
3. Stamp Act (1765)
4. Townshend Acts (1767)
5. Quartering Act (1765)
6. Intolerable Acts (1774)
Colonial Opposition
1. Stamp Act Congress – issues a boycott of British goods
“No Taxation Without Representation
-Led by John Adams
2. Sons of Liberty – Colonial Independence Group; protest English Acts/Taxes
-Led by Samuel Adams
3. Committees of Correspondence – colonial group voicing concerns to England
- Led by Benjamin Franklin
Further Escalation
1. Boston Massacre-March 5, 1770-colonists rebel to Quartering Act-British open fire-5 colonists die
Propaganda – information used to influence opinion
2. Boston Tea Party
-November 27, 1773
-Protest of Tea Act (Townshend Acts)
-Sons of Liberty dump 342 chests of English tea into Boston Harbor ($32,000 worth)
-leads to Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Intolerable (Coercive Acts)
4 Parts:
1. Port Act – Closes Boston Harbor
2. Mass. Government Act – revokes MA charter
3. Quartering Act – Martial Law
4. Revoking of Rights Act – no arms or protest