Chapter 7: The Fight for a Continent

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Chapter 7 The Fight for a Continent

• Zigler 2007

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Lesson One The Spanish Move North

• Fighting for Florida
• New Mexico
• The Pueblo Revolt
• The Spanish Return

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Spanish want to control Florida

• Goal stop the French and English from gaining
  control of this part on NA

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Florida became part on New Spain

• Aviles found French
• Defeated French
• Took control of Florida

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Spanish founded St. Augustine
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New Mexico

• NO gold and silver, BUT

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New Mexico

• Had lots of grassland for sheep and cattle raising

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Haciendas

• Built by wealthy ranchers
• Large estates

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Haciendas

• Self-sufficient communities
• Many Native American workers

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Pueblo people were upset with the Spanish

• Spanish enslaving Pueblos
• Spanish taking over Pueblo villages
• Spanish forcing Pueblos to give up traditions

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Pueblo rebelled against Spanish Pueblo Revolt
Pueblo force the Spanish out of New Mexico and
win the Revolt
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Lesson 2 French Explore the Mississippi

• Exploring the Mississippi
• Founding Louisiana
• New French Settlements

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French learned skills from Native Americans

• Snowshoes
• Build birch bark canoes

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French wanted control of Mississippi River

• Reach new lands
• Build new trading posts
• Find the Northwest Passage

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LaSalle claimed the entire Mississippi River
Valley for France
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French Settlements Detroit
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French Settlements New Orleans

• Ideal location at the mouth of the Mississippi
  River

1726 view of the young city of Nouvelle Orleans
from across the Mississippi
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New Orleans

• Was a busy trading center for the French

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Lesson 3 The French and Indian War

• Conflicts Over Land
• The Ohio River Valley
• The French and Indian War
• British Victory
• Pontiacs Rebellion

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Settlers wanted more land

• Settlers started moving west

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Native Americans resisted English Settlement

• Natives had been living on land for thousands of
  years
• Did not want to give land up to English settlers

Wampanoag Natives
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Metacom

• Wampanoag leader
• Goal force the English out of New England

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King Phillips War

• Year of bitter fighting between English and
  Natives
• Metacom killed

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English win King Phillips War

• English now control most of New England

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French claim Ohio River Valley

• Upsets English and
• Native Americans and
• starts the French and
• Indian War

Ohio River Valley (in yellow)
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English demand French Leave

• Washington sent to France with stern letter
  warning French to leave
• French wont leave

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French wont leave

• Washington and troops build Fort Necessity

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Battle at Fort Duquene

• French attack
• Washington is forced to surrendor

Washington surrendering Fort Necessity to the
French
George Washington's signature on surrender
document
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Small battles were the start of a long war
between France and Britain
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War strategy

• British start sending in more soldiers to fight
• British started to win battles

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Result of war

• Britain took over most of New France
• Many American Indian lands were now part of the
  British Empire

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Proclamation of 1763

• To avoid fighting with Natives, Colonists are no
  longer allowed to settle on land west of the
  Appalachian Mountains
• Colonists angered