American Pageant Chapter 4 Apush

The French and India war was a war that took place in today’s Pittsburgh. The war was both caused by the English and French. The English and the French both felt that they were entitled to land and each was to willing to fight and they were also, willing to go into war so they could prove that they owned the land. (odellreads.com)

Year by year the farmers who lived on soil, whose returns were diminished by unrotated crops were offered the virgin soil of the frontier at nominal prices. Their growing families demanded more lands, and these were dear. The competition of the unexhausted, cheap, and easily tilled prairie lands compelled the farmer either to go west and continue the exhaustion of the soil on a new frontier, or to adopt intensive culture.

Despite the flushed predictions of prosperity that had lured new settlers to the plains, the reality was more difficult. The farmers claimed that they did not have enough land, money, and transportation (Doc C). The farmers went into in a never ending cycle if they did not have a good harvest. As Booker Washington explains the farmers had no money so they had to borrow money from the banks which charged 12 to 30 percent interest. The interest the farmers were hit with was nearly impossible to repay so they had to mortgage everything and if the mortgage wasn’t paid the land was foreclosure which led the yeomen to become tenant farmers (Doc B). With periods of drought growing good crops was hard. Leading Economic Sectors shows how the farmers predicament of not being able to make a very

War broke out yesterday on Monday, April 15, 1751. During the day there was a string of murders on trade officials in the town of Pocotaligo. Followed by the murders were several attacks on South Carolina plantations by the Yamasee Indians. During the attacks the Yamasee managed to kill over 100 colonists and they set the rest of the colony to war.

Albany, NY- The year is 1763 and the bloodiest American war of the 18th century just took place. The Nine Years War, also known as the French and Indian War, was fought between the French and the British colonies in the Ohio River Valley. The war officially started in 1756, technically 1754, over whether the Ohio Valley was French or British territory. It was was the fourth time the two groups and their Indian allies fought.

1- The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was a seven-year-long war among England and France. (France was unified with the Indians). The war did not authoritatively start until 1756. They were battling for the control of North America. This war was a part of a bigger war that was going ahead in Europe.

When the British settlers arrived on the Powhatan territory, the Indians did not see them as a threat, it was a mutual relationship. When the Powhatan realised that the British’s intention was to own the land, conflict aroused as the Indians do not believe in man owning land. The British suffered an Indian attack in 1607, two weeks after the British arrival, but the Indians were fought off with weapons such as muskets and cannons. This was the start of the Powhatan wars.

When Lord De La Warr arrived in 1610 he started the First Anglo-Powhatan War, which ended with a peace treaty in 1614 and the marriage of Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe.

There was also Pontiac’s rebellion. Pontiac warriors attacked British forts around the Great Lakes. To prevent

- Nation-state: a political unit consisting of a self-governing state populated primarily by a people sharing a common culture and/or religion, history, and language.

29. Jamestown - A joint-stock company called "Virigina Company" of london received a charter from James 1 of England for settlement in new world. The reason

Slavery. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, it is the condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, and was deprived of the rights held by free people. Slavery was viewed as a way that undeveloped people, such as Black African men and women, could receive the physical and moral discipline and training necessary to attain civilized virtues.

It was to be her marriage to colonist John Rolfe in 1614 that would bring about a temporary peace between the natives and colonists but it only lasted until her death in 1617. Powhatan died in 1618, and was succeeded by his brother Opechancanough who despised the settlers who were bringing disease and taking Indian lands. On March 22, 1622, Indians attacked the colonists killing 347 of them, one fourth of the colonist’s population. The colonists countered by burning the natives’ cornfields and attacking their villages. During peace talks in April 1623, the colonists served the Indians poisoned wine, killing two hundred of them. The English would be ferocious in the next nine years of war with the natives, and the Indian’s (whose tribes were separate, not united) stood little chance against them.

If colonies could send raw materials, such as lumber, from the abundance of natural resources available in the colonies, then England would not have to buy these from other countries. At the same time, colonies could be markets for England’s manufactured goods. England knew that establishing colonies was an expensive and risky business. The organization of business ventures by merchants, blessed by the crown, served both the economic and political interests of the country. All of these factors were at play when a group of merchants formed a joint-stock company called the Virginia Company of London. In 1606 King James I granted the Virginia Company its first charter, which included the right to establish colonies in Virginia and extended all rights of Englishmen to colonists. Under this charter, wealthy men invested money to finance ships and supplies needed for the voyage to Virginia. A royal council made up of 13 members was appointed by King James to govern the

“Slavery is founded on the selfishness of a man’s nature ;opposition to it on his love and justice.” In the year 1619 the first african slaves were brought to the colony of Jamestown in North America. These slaves were used for many things such as labor, money, and to show weath. Slavery was a time when all people were not equal to each other the people who were slaves were treated brutally,