1. The Duel & Road to Revolution
AP Chapters 6 & 7

3. Quebec
1608
Samuel de Champlain

4. Hurons Allied with French to defeat their old enemy the Iroquois
In return, the Iroquois:
Ravaged….
Slowed..
Served…

5. New France Primary source of wealth: fur trade especially beavers
French fur trappers would travel extensively through North America

6. Jesuits French Catholic missionaries that tried to convert the Indians
Filled vital role as explorers & geographers

7. Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit
La Salle founded the colony of Louisiana
Later New Orleans is established in 1718

8. King William’s War
Queen Anne’s War
King George’s War
(War of Jenkins’s Ear)

9. The Seven Years War “French & Indian War” 21 yr old George Washington…
Fort Necessity…
July 4, 1754

10. French Acadians in Nova Scotia
Brutally uprooted by the British in 1775
Most sent to LA (about 4,000)
Today over a million “Cajuns” there

11. Albany Plan of Union

12. The Real Fighting Begins…
Braddock
Pitt

13. The Plains of Abraham…

14. Treaty of Paris (1763) French Power fades in North America…
Proclamation Line of 1763 angers many…
Marks the end of salutary neglect…

15. Daniel Boone….

16. Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763 Ottawa Chief leads a handful of tribes…
British send regular troops (want colonies to pay for them)….
Rebellion crushed but creates further problems…

17. Republicanism…
Radical Whigs…
Impact on the Colonists…
Plato

18. Mercantilism Advantages Disadvantages Protection Assured Trade
Stifled Economy
Currency Issues
Colonists used butter, nails, pitch & feathers

19. Adam Smith Scottish born “Father of Economics”
Argued against Mercantilism in Wealth of Nations
Encouraged free trade

20. Prime Minister George Grenville
Britain: Biggest Empire and Biggest Debt
Proclamation Line (1763)
Enforce Navigation Laws (1650)
Sugar Act (1764)
Quartering Act (1765)
Stamp Act (1765)

21. Colonial Reaction

22. Stamp Act Congress 1765 Largely Ignored but…
Nonimportation Agreements & Boycotts took their toll…

24. Sons of Liberty…
1766 Parliament repeals the Stamp Act..
Passes the Declaratory Act

25. Charles Townshend
Townshend Acts (1767) indirect tax on glass, paper, paint & tea….

27. George III “A good man, a bad ruler”
Townshend Acts were a failure… repealed by Parliament – except for the 3 pence tax on tea…

28. Samuel Adams
“Zealous, tenacious, and courageous” he was a “master propagandist and engineer of rebellion”
Organized the Committees of Correspondence…

30. Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) 1774
Boston Port Act…
New Quartering Act…
Quebec Act…

32. 1st Continental Congress - 1774

34. The Shot Heard ‘Round the World

35. April 1775 Lexington & Concord
Minute Men…
8 Americans – 70 British killed…

36. Edmund Burke
Led Whig opposition…felt the battle for British freedom was being fought in America…