Louis B. Vega
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Chapter 4
Section 3
THE FRENCH CHALLENGE
The French and English Wars
Constant war w/ France
No French permanent settlements/trade
Parallel war in Europe
Indian alliances
-1689 King Williams War
New York colonies & Nova Scotia
-1702 Queen Anne’s War
Massachusettes & Nova Scotia again
St. Augustine
-1713 Teaty of Utrecht
England won in Europe
-1744 King George’s War
war at St. Lawrence River/France won
The French challenge
Line of forts along Canada’s border
George Washington 21 (surveyer) sent to warn
Virginia militia, leutenant colonel
French took over forts
escaped
The French and Indian Wars
90,000 to 1.5 mil French outnumbered
won most of the battles
experts at Forest warfare
-Fort Pitt
-Quebec- hidden passage
-Seven years war France/Spain vs. England
Enland won
-loss of Canada/Ohio valley/Spanish Florida
…the West was open
…>loyalty
Postwar Problems
Debt and defense
Land and Indians in Ohio Valley
-Pontiac Rebellion
-Proclamation of 1763/restriction