U.S History I American Pagent Chapter 6 Vocabulary

The "Battle with the Iroquois" resulted from having Native American Allies. " Huron, Algonquian, and Montagnais asked him to accompany them on a warring party into the heart of Iroquois territory." This meant Samuel became involved with the warfare in the region. It

Anderson, Fred. 2000. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1756. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Pp. 746

In July 1758, the British won their first major victory at Louisbourg, near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. Within a month, they took Fort Frontenac at the western end of the river. Then they arrived at Quebec, where General James Wolfe won another important victory in the Plains of Abraham in September 1759. However, both he and the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, died soon after the battle. When the British captured Montreal in September 1760, the French lost their last foothold in Canada. Soon, Spain decided to help France fight against England, and throughout the rest of the war Britain focused on capturing French and Spanish territories in other places throughout the world. The cost of funding the war was so massive that the ensuing debt nearly destroyed the British government. This debt caused most of the grievances between the British and the colonists, eventually leading to the Revolutionary War.

The battle of Quebec during 1775 is one of the many battles that took place during the American Revolution. It is a famous battle that at the time seemed to diminish the hopes of the Americans to force Britain out of America. The American rebels were split into two armies that were to head up from opposite sides of the Montreal/Quebec area and force the British out of that area so they could take over. The main reason the Americans wanted to gain control of this area was in hope that the French Canadians would join the American revolution, and help send the British back across the Atlantic Ocean. Britain could not hang onto Montreal, but they easily hung onto Quebec and they forced the American army to back off and after that night, the American forces never made an effort to try to take control of that area again. One man who was part of the American forces at that point was Benedict Arnold. He is known as the biggest traitor in American history, but he is an important face of the American Revolution at this time. “In 1780, Arnold deflected to the British, and his change from Patriot to traitor is one of the most compelling narratives in American history.” His journey through the forests of Maine leading up to the battle of Quebec is a story to behold and when one begins to understand the story of the journey, then they will realize that the long and hard trip to the destination is a huge contributor to the reason why the rebels lost that battle.

These all were men that helped and led the revolution against Britain and in the end gained their independence from it. Benedict Arnold led in the earlier days of the war. He led in the Battle of Saratoga where he was seriously wounded. William Alexander Served under George Washington for most of the war. Marquis de Lafayette was a French man who served as a major general and was an aid from France when they decided to help the Colonists out. George Washington, known for being the Commander and Chief of the Continental Army and was recognized as the greatest leader of the time. Soon after the Revolutionary War George Washington became the first president of the United States. These men all contributed to the training and motivation of their troops who fought bravely for them because they thought they were great leaders. In the end the Colonial leaders and generals all contributed to winning the Revolutionary War and gaining their Independence from the

In 1753 George Washington, who was 21, went to confront the French in the Ohio country by Lieutenant governor Dinwiddie. Washington’s journey to the Fort Le Beouf made Washington famous on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1754 Washington made a surprise attack on a small French army at Jumonville Glen. This helped to make the French and Indian war. In the following year Washington joined Major General Edward Braddock on his march to Fort Duquesne.

French Canadians have been coming to the United States since the early 1500’s. They’ve come for freedom, enjoyment and some have even been forced to come by higher powers. In this essay I mostly focus on the late 1600’s through the mid 1700’s. Throughout the late 1600’s and the 1700’s thousands of French Canadians were forced and willingly came to the United States. My first reason is about 6,500 French Canadians who were forced to come to America for refusing to take an oath to the King of England.

Inventing the trade of furs among the British and the French, the Native Americans initiated the Fur Trade. English fishermen and the French were the first to trade for furs from the Native Americans. In exchange, Native American recieved European-manufactured goods. This trade became so profitable, that fishermen would abandon fishing to go to North America just to trade furs. Allied with the Iroquois, the British were thought to have an advantage with the Native Americans.

Despite the defeats inflicted by the French during the first battles, William Pitt's new British Government, supported by his Commander in Chief in America, the comte de Loudoun, set up a genuine offensive to take the colony. Step by step, he planned the invasion of New France. In the beginning, Pitt and Loudoun sought to capture Louisbourg and subsequently move on to Québec by sea. The capture of the colony was to end with a battle in Montreal, where three armies would make their way, one from Albany through Lake Champlain; another from south of the Great Lakes, the last one from Québec. To implement this plan, Pitt organized reinforcements consisting of colonial troops backed up by naval

The Seven Years War united the once divergent colonies by giving them a general opponent, the French and Spanish in their fight for land. As the British brought these unwanted grievances, the colonists found another reason to unite together and fight, igniting the flame for the American Revolution. First, because Americans had no voice in the Parliament, the colonists protested against the taxation laws saying “No taxation without representation”. To control the outraged revolts, Britain sent troops to America and forced the colonists to house the soldiers and provide them food, which many colonists saw as an invading of property. Lastly, after the Seven Years War, King George III rewarded the Native American tribes that aided the British in the war by making the Proclamation Line of 1763, which forbade white settlement past the Appalachian Mountains.

The Battle of Quebec took place on 13 September 1759. This battle was part of the French and Indian War between the French Army and the British Army. The French-Indian war was the North American front of the Seven Years’ War, which was fought on the European continent and on the Indian subcontinent. The outcome of the Battle Of Quebec would prove pivotal in determining who would control Canada. The British exhibited successful tactics in deception, exploited false assumptions, took audacious actions, and benefited from unity of effort. The French suffered due to a lack of standardization between regular army and militia members, which led to an embarrassing defeat at Quebec.

Before 1713, Acadia was a French colony pioneered mostly by settlers from the coastal provinces of Brittany, Normandy, Picardy, and Poitou—a region that suffered great hardships in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In 1628, famine and plague followed the end of a series of religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. When social tensions in coastal France ripened, more than 10,000 people left for the colony founded by Samuel Champlain in 1604 known as "La Cadie" or Acadia. The area, which included what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and part of Maine, was one of the first European colonies in North America. The Company of New France recruited colonists from coastal France as indentured servants. Fishermen, farmers, and trappers served for five years to repay the company with their labor for the transportation and materials it had provided. In the New World,

The main invading force soldier was General John (“Gentleman Johnny”) Burgoyne who went down Lake Champlain from Canada to New York to see his troops.

The population demographics most likely did not make the trading posts feel like a reasonable place to build a life from. Thus, the objective for the French settlers were to trade and explore, rather than create a new civilization. The French developed a trading system with many Native Americans and had relatively civil interactions, compared with England and Spain (Royot 2007, 106). France in this era was controlled by the French

The Algonquin people, Jesuit missionaries, and French laborers are three separate cultural groups that are important to understand in the context of Native American and French peoples’ interactions. Each group plays a significant role in the history of early French exploration and colonies in North America. When focusing on each group, it is important to understand how each cultural group is portrayed, and who is portraying them. The better we can understand these interactions the more we can learn from our past.