THE COLONIAL STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA TO 1763

New Sweden(1638-55)

• Dutch conquest in 1655

New Netherland

• English conquest in 1664

French North American colonies and colonists

• New France

  • main axis - St. Lawrence River

  • dominated by fur trade

• Louisiana

  • main axis - Mississippi River

  • coureurs de bois

Anglo-French wars(1689-1763)

• King William's War(War of the League of Augsburg)(1689-97)

• Queen Anne's War(War of the Spanish Succession)(1702-13)

• King George's War(War of the Austrian Succession)(1744-48)

*French and Indian War(Seven Years War)(1754-63)

• fourth of four wars fought between Britain and France in North America

  • part of a larger imperial struggle among European nations for colonies

• fourth of seven British-French wars involving British North America or the U.S.(1689-1815)

  • a crucible of U.S. independence

  • subsequent wars in this series

    • Revolutionary War

    • Wars of the French Revolution

    • Napoleonic Wars

• grew out of British-French struggle over North America, specifically the Ohio Country

• employment of Indians by both sides

• *William Pitt

• *Fort Loudoun

  • 1760-61 Anglo-Cherokee War

• consequences

  • British acquisition of New France and Louisiana

  • enhanced identities as Americans for people in British North America

  • weakened position of Indians in British North America

    • *Pontiac's Rebellion(1763)

    • *Proclamation of 1763