1. The Duel for North America: 1608-1763
Unit 1: Early America to 1763

2. “Trouble in Paradise” Clashes in the New World between:
Natives and settlers
Settlers and their “workers”
Between natives
Between settlers
Between imperial powers

3. Wars with Native population
Popé’s rebellion 1680
Black Legend
Anglo-Pohatan War (1614)
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Second Pohatan War
No hopes for assimilation and peace
Tuscarora War: NC ( )
Yamasee: SC ( )
Pequot War
King Phillip’s War

4. Outcome of Conflicts? Continued and intensified: Retaliation
Loss of autonomy and land
Unfair and fraudulent negotiations

5. “Worker” Revolts Bacon’s Rebellion Stono Rebellion 1739
Landless vs. gentry
Stono Rebellion 1739
New York slave revolt 1712
All rebellions were quickly suppressed
Seeds of discontent were sown

6. Fighting for Rights Zenger Trial New York 1734-1735
Role of Alexander Hamilton
Charges of sedition and libel
Freedom of the press?

7. Meanwhile in Europe… Edict of Nantes (1598) English Civil War
Huguenots
New France
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution

8. Imperial Battles Defeat of the Spanish Armada
English settlers vs. French coureurs de bois
King William’s War ( )
Queen Anne’s War ( )
Role of Indian allies
Guerilla warfare – not worth the commitment of regular troops
Utrecht treaty (1713) signaled the extent of British victory

9. Contagion from troubles with Spain
British trading rights in Spanish America
War of Jenkin’s Ear
Caribbean Sea and Georgia
King George’s War
War of Austrian Succession
Louisbourg returned to the French
Remember, American colonists were British

10. Fight for the Ohio Valley
Pressure for expansion
Disputed land claims
Introducing….. George Washington
Capture of Fort Necessity
Uprooting of Acadians

11. French and Indian War Seven Year’s War (1754-1763) Albany Congress
England and Prussia vs. France, Spain, Austria, and Russia
Albany Congress
Quest for colonial unity
Retention of Iroquois alliance
British Regulars
Battle of Quebec

12. Implications and Aftermath
Will colonies be able to unify?
Treatment of colonial soldiers
What will happen to Indians allied to the French?
Pontiac’s uprising

13. Seeds of Colonial Discontent
Mercantilism
End of salutary neglect
Dominion of New England
Proclamation of 1763
Discovery of a common voice across colonies