Imperial Wars

Unit 2 (Notes 1)

Queen Anne’s War

(1702 -1713) British take Nova Scotia

King George’s War

(1744-1748) British colonies again under attack from French and Spanish

Beginning of the Seven Years War

-French building forts in the Ohio River Valley

-Initial British losses

-French and Native Americans ravage the frontier

The Albany Congress (British)

-British government calls representatives from several colonies to meet in 1754

Delegates create the:

Albany Plan of Union

Albany Plan of Union: (Set what?)

Sets a precedent for later congresses in 1770s

Late 1750’s:

British Victories in Canada

The Peace of Paris (1763): (What is it)

European powers negotiate a treaty

The Peace of Paris (1763):

-Great Britain acquires French Canada and Spanish Florida

-France gives Spain its Louisiana territory (to offset loss of Florida)

Immediate effects of the Seven Years War: 

-Britain achieves unchallenged supremacy in North America 

-Changes how British and Colonists view each other

British and Colonial views:

• British are unimpressed by colonial military

• Colonists are proud of their contributions

British adopt more forceful policies in North America after the French&Indian War

• Colonists had grown accustomed to self-government and salutary neglect

British increase taxes in colonies to:

pay for debts incurred by recent wars

British also begin to maintain a larger:

Military force in the colonies

Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763):

• First major test of Britain’s new imperial policy

• British troops sent to deal with the uprising

The Proclamation of 1763

• Prohibits colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Thousands of colonists defiantly head westward to settle anyway