I think one of the most important things in history started in the early 1500s, when King Henry the eighth broke the country’s laws with the Catholic Church and ended up establishing the Church of England. It was the official state church under his power. The pilgrims were a separatist group. King James attacked them because they were not apart of the Church of England. So they approached the Virginia company and asked if they could settle in the Americas. In November of 1620 the mayflower arrived off the coast of Massachusetts. They had got blown off their course to a place John Smith had mapped called Plymouth. The men signed a agreement on the ship called the Mayflower Compact. These would be there laws for a long time till they made new ones later on. …show more content…
George Washington was on his way to go defend the fort of Duquesne when he learned that they had already surrendered. He and his men gained and built a smaller fort. He then attacked the French and their allies. They then started fighting back and then the French and Indian War had started. Washington had to surrender at Fort Necessity. Britain finally realized that to win the war they had to not on the rely on the colonist funding and troops. Then the British won over the Frenches biggest city Quebec. In 1761 they both came to a compromise to sign the Treaty of Paris which claimed the British got the east side of the Mississippi River. The French got everything else.; Third is the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776. It had announced the thirteen colonies as free. They no longer wanted to be under England's control. John Adams was the leader(I think he's great because I'm related to him). He also seemed like a pretty chill person. I also think this is important because it gave our country freedom. This is what made England mad and started the revolutionary
France and Britain both wanted to control the Indian lands in the Ohio Valley, because controlling the valley meant control of America. France pushed south, and newly chosen Major George Washington was in charge of getting them out. France already set up forts at vital areas of the land. Washington and his few troops built a form in Western Pennsylvania, Fort Necessity. Washington’s few men lost when the French attacked on July 3rd, 1754. Three days of battle ended when Washington surrendered, after 1/3 of his 300 men were wounded or worse, and France was in control.
The French and Indian War, was a war fought between France and Britain. The war was the product of an imperial struggle, a clash between the French and English over colonial territory and wealth. Great Britain claimed that the French provoked war by building forts along the Ohio River Valley. Virginia’s governor sent a militia to the French and Native American allies. The war started out badly for Great Britain, about 2,000 British and colonial troops were defeated by the French and Native Americans. For the first three years of the war, the outnumbered French dominated the battlefield, soundly defeating the English in battles at Fort Oswego and Ticonderoga. The British then began to make peace with important Indian allies, and under the
While the war was going on, Britain and America would continuously try and take over each others land by attacking and invading. Time after time, the Americans defeated the British at Baltimore and Fort McHenry. The British burned Washington during all of the madness, and eventually Americans tried to invade Canada with very little success. “The Creeks” which were a group of Indians, eventually became allies with the British and tried to have a battle with Andrew Jackson. Jackson claimed his victory and demanded land right away.
Bickering and dispute led to a war among two countries. It was a battle to determine which country would be rendered as superior in North America. Superior means "higher in rank, status, and quality" and neither one of these two countries were going to back down from the ultimate fight. The French and Indian War, as it was titled, reigned on from the year of 1754 to that of 1763. It all began with conflicts over territory and land. At the time, the French explorers had been the first Europeans to settle along disparate bodies of water, such as the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, as well as the Great Lakes. It was among these areas that the French settlers had been able to establish trading centers, thus beginning the Fur Trade, one of the ealrier
The French and Indian War was a big war in this time period because it leads too much bigger wars. In the war of 1744 through 1748, England and France fought for their New World spot. The ended with resolutions only concerning Europe’s behalf. Meanwhile. The English pushed farther into the Ohio Valley, which infuriated the French. The French had established slave trader were located where the English were headed. When they figured out that this was happening, they attempted to start several military’s. The “Virginia colonists who were speculating on lands to the west retailed the French forts by building Fort Necessity nearby.” The French did get their way. George Washington was forced the surrender. This made the French gain more control
George Washington was an important figure during the French and Indian War in 1763. Before the war began, there was a conflict between the British and the French. Both of the empires wanted to expand and claim lands in North America, but soon ran into territory issues. Britain demands the French to give ownership, but the French did not comply. The British government sent Washington along with General Edward Braddock to Fort Duquesne to warn the French there will be consequences if they will not follow the British's demand. When Washington and his men got to the fort, they attempted to attack the fort but were ambushed by the French guerrilla war style attack. Braddock was killed in the battle and his position was given to George Washington.
The British and French have held a reputation for being mortal enemies for ages. One of their most significant (pertaining to he New World) conflicts was the French and Indian War. The war began with the same cause as most other wars; land claims. In 1754, George Washington and his men marched all the way to the Ohio River Valley from Virginia in an attempt to take the land away from the French, who were occupying the area. Washington and his men were brutally defeated but Washington miraculously escaped death. The reason why the British wanted the land was so that they could keep the highly profitable fur trade business with the local Native Americans alive. After all, one of the main objectives of the colonies were to make money off of
The The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, granted Britain a great deal of valuable North American land. The war had dragged on long enough, and the British public was weary of footing the bill.Moreover, the Native Americans, who had allied themselves with the French during the Seven Years' War, continued to fight after the peace had been reached.Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–66), a war launched by a group of natives around the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, was an unsuccessful effort by the western tribes to push the British back. However tribes were able to take over a large number of the forts which commanded the waterways involved in trade within the region and export to Great Britain. The Proclamation of 1763 had been in the works before Pontiac's Rebellion, but the outbreak of the conflict hastened the process. British officials hoped the proclamation would reconcile American Indians to British rule and help to prevent future hostilities. New borders drawn by the Royal Proclamation of 1763.
From the years 1754 - 1763, the French and Indian War took place. This war lasted a full nine years, between the British and French forces. During the early years of settlement, the French army wanted to expand and explore further south, while the British wanted to expand further west. This led to their meeting at the Ohio River Valley. When the war began, most of the Indian tribes joined force with the French army. This included the Powhatan tribe, while the Iroquois sided with the British. Throughout the beginning of the war the French had the winning advantage due to forces and quantity of their forts. But the action that turned the tide of the war was when William Pitt, who fought with the British army, over financed the war. This meant
The French and Indian War, which happened between 1754 and 1763 was a stepping-stone for what would become known as the Revolutionary War. The French and Indian War was originally a dispute over the Ohio River Valley. The French considered it their territory, where as the English considered it theirs. While it was a territorial dispute between the countries, the war took place in the colonies. The colonist fought bravely beside the British, whereas the Indians sided with the French. At the beginning all the countries wanted was to claim the Ohio River Valley as their own; however, the outcome of the war was very different. By fighting for that territory, the French sacrificed not only Quebec, but also all claim on land in the New World.
The French and Indian War was caused by the French repeatedly encroaching on the British colonies of the Ohio River Valley. The French were building Forts all along the Ohio River with intent to take possession of it. After hearing this the Governor of Virginia sent 150 soldiers to reinforce a fort located where the two rivers met. George Washington was the second in command of this small army but was then promoted to the commander after the commander died. Washington grouped up with a Seneca Indian ally and launched a surprise attack on the French killing the commander and some of his men, the rest were taken as prisoners. While Washington was occupying the fort the French and their Indian allies launched an assault; they killed a third of Washington’s men and left him no choice but surrender.
From 1754 to 1763, the French and Indian War took place. This war altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. It was the last of four North American wars waged from 1689 to 1763 between the British and the French. In these struggles, each country fought for control of the continent with the assistance of Native American and colonial allies. The French and Indian War occurred to end the land dispute between the British and French. Whoever won, in reality, gained an empire. It was a determined and eventually successful attempt by the British to get a dominant position in North America, the West Indies, and the subcontinent of India. Although Britain had won all this land,
In 1763, the treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France, along with their allies. During the war, British forces had gained important victories against France overseas. They had also captured
I think that the signing of the Declaration of Independents is the most famous and well known events in history. It captures all that they wanted to accomplish as a nation into one, they were declaring their freedom. Through the hard working years, that is all they wanted was freedom from the British and to become their own independent country. The signatures were marking and stating that we are independent and we are all in this together and there is nothing you can do to stop us. I believe that the signing of the Declaration of Independents was the most important event in US history.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War began in response to the British unapologetically impinging on the French and the Indian territory. After the seven years of war, the French and British negotiated the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty of Paris effectively ended the French and Indian War/the Seven Years War. It was put into practice in 1763. The immediate results included the French loss of all territory in the Americas except some islands in the Gulf, the Spanish receiving all land west of the Mississippi River (including the previously French Louisiana), and the colonists/Britain getting all land east of the Mississippi River. The impact of the Treaty varied for each group and also varied within the parameters of the groups of constituents.