Ch.5-Ch.6 Maps

Picture 1

  1. To England: Fish, Fur, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Rice, Indigo. To Colonies: Linens, Horses, Manufactured products

  2. Rum

  3. Slaves

  4. Slaves, Molasses

  5. Rice, Fish, Livestock, Lumber, Flour

Picture 2

  1. New Orleans/ Mouth of the Mississippi River

  2. Mississippi Valley

  3. Hudson Bay

  4. Great Lakes/ Ohio River Valley

  5. Montreal

  6. Quebec

  7. Newfoundland

  8. Nova Scotia (1754)/ Louisbourg (1758)/ Port Royal

  9. Henry Hudson River

  10. Flordia

Random Facts:

  • George Washington was demoted from Lt Col to Captian during the Seven Years War

  • He was also ironically captured on July 4th, 1754 at Fort Neccesity

  • The Albany Congress was created by British gov to help unify the colonies, but only 7/13 colonial delegates came. In the end, the colonist believed Franklin’s ideas did not have enough independence, and the British gov felt it gave too much.

  • General Braddock approved of the colonial buckskin fighters behind-the-tree fighting methods. Braddock died in battle, leaving Washington to retreat with ~300 men of 2000 left

  • Pitt saved the Americas, he was young, popular, and wisely chose young and energetic leaders over old and incompetent ones. He successful took over Louisbourg in 1758

  • The FALL OF MONTREAL was important because it was the last time French power was in north America.

  • Spain was given the Louisiana property from the French, giving Spain some claim to N America

  • The Seven Years War showed Colonists

    • The disunity between each other and the start of melting that

    • Their building of self-esteem

    • The breaking of the myth of an undefeatable British empire

    • The poor treatment of the British and thought of superiority (British would not let colonists be above the rank of Captain)

    • Their want for credit for helping fight the war

    • The true rights of Englishmen (They were not receiving) (They did not fully mind when they were given 900,000 euros for helping fight the war)

    • THEY DID NOT NEED TO RELY ON THE CROWN FOR PROTECTION ANYMORE

  • The fall of Montreal and Quebec was the start of the United States

  • Pontiacs uprising was in Detroit. The British used biological warfare, distributing blankets with small pox to indians

  • The Proclamation of 1763 was meant to prevent another uprising like Pontiacs, but the colonists perceived it as limiting their freedom