Unit 4 History

There was a competition for North America between who for resources, land,and influence pushed by Mercantilism?

English,French, Spanish, Dutch and Indigenous people.

After the Caribbean and Southern parts of the Americas, the Spanish moved into North America , which is now what modern day?

Southwestern and southeastern regions of United States.

The spanish settled in?

Florida St Augustine (1565) was a military post, trade outpost

Catholic Spanish Missionaries worked to convert who to christianity?

Indigenous and become farmers causing conflict

Indigenous populations declined because?

Diseases spread

In North America the French used?

Alliances and rivalries to make more cooperative trade relationships.

The french settled in?

St.Lawrence River and ind land to the great lakes

French traded textiles , metal goods,and weapons for?

Fur pelts

Indigenous people competed for status as?

Intermediaries between the french and Indigenous traders

What religion were the french?

Jesuit

French Catholic missionaries worked to convert?

Indigenous people to Christianity

The Netherlands lagged behind other European countries in?

Taking interest in the new world

The dutch trading company sent?

Hudson Henry to scout the northern coast of America.

Henry Hudson founded the?

Hudson River

The dutch set up a place called?

New Amsterdam and later fort orange (albany)

By the 1630s the Dutch had?

Large land estates

The dutch focused on trade with the indigenous people from?

Present day New York and New Jersey

The Dutch establish fur trade alliance with the?

Iroquois confederacy

The Dutch traded weapons to the iroquois which helped them how?

Defeat the Huron

The British arrived for?

Economic and Religious reasons.

Alliances the British made were?

Military , Trading resources , Indigenous agricultural knowledge

British alliance with the military relied on?

Indigenous for defense against other european rivals

British traded?

Gun , metal products, fur

British used Indigenous agricultural knowledge by?

Taught how to care for crops: corn, squash and beans (3 sisters)

The British became focused on?

Acquiring land for farming and settlement.

The British acquiring land caused conflict with?

Indigenous people

Jamestown involved conflicts between?

Powhatan Confederacy and the English colonists of Virginia

Indigenous land was>

Sacred and tied to beliefs and cultural practices and livelihoods (hunting , farming , and fishing)

Indigenous communities had to compete amongst?

Themselves and europeans for land and resources

Treaties were created between the indigenous because?

Peace to settle conflicts,Securing land, providing access to land, boundaries and trade

More settlers arrived and moved westward into?

indigenous lands

In the 1670s these settlers complained of?

Raids on their hogs by indigenous groups leading to skirmishes between them

Frontiersmen believed that the governor catered to?

Planters which levied high taxes that hurt small farmers and servants. Tabasco prices also falling.

Frontiersmen demanded permission to push these groups out near settlements of colonists in which Berkeley?

Resisted

Governed berkley respected?

Treaty of agreement

Treaty of agreement?

Annual tax paid to maintain peace, which gave protection from the British in return.

Nathanial bacon arrived to Virginia in 1674 and was appointed?

Governors council

Nathanial bacon had disagreements with?

Governed Berkeley about how he ran his colony

Nathanial bacon wanted?

Lower taxes , elections to the house of burgesses and voting to all and passion to wage war against indigenous groups

Nathaniel bacon led a rebellion against Berkeley’s government with?

Small farmers , servants and some enslaved people

In 1676 Nathanial bacon conducted a series of ?

Raids and massacres against the indigenous communities on the Virginia frontier

Governed Berkeley accused bacon and followers of rebelling against?

Royal authority

Bacons forces succeeded in taking the governors forces and?

Burned Jamestown settlement then bacon died of dysentery

Bacons rebllion showed differences between the ?

Wealthy planters , the small farmers and the landless poor

Bacons rebellion showed resistance to?

Royal authority

Who fought the French and Indian war (1754-1763)

Conflict between Britain and France and indigenous groups allied on both sides.

The French and Indian war began over competing claims over land in?

Ohio river valley where the French built forts to keep the British from expanding

The virgins governor sent the milita with a note requesting the French to?

Leave the area but the French refused

Eventually the British concentrated on Canada and also sent triops to Virginia to get the?

French out of the Ohio territory. Colonials participation in the British war effort

After Britain victory’s the Europeans negatioed a peace in the?

Treaty of Paris 1763

Treaty of Paris 1763

Ended the war and great britian gained a vast empire (all of France’s North American possessions east of the mission river ) and Spanish Florida

Great Britain prohibited colonists from?

Settling west of the Appalachia to limit encroachment of indigenous lands