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9/9 Bellringer 1. Which nation on
the map had the “best” colonies? Why?
2. Based on the map, what problems might arise among the European powers?
3. How should these nations work out their differences?
North America 1754
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Mercantilism
By the 1650s, Britain began to embrace the economic
policy of mercantilism based on the idea that the colonies exist to generate wealth for
the mother country
Mercantilism is based on the idea of a balance of trade in
which a nation exports more than it imports
The Navigation Acts
Mercantilism meant that Britain began to control &
regulate colonial trade
In 1660, Britain began the first of a series of
Navigation Acts designed to restrict colonial trade
& increase British wealth
The Navigation Acts required the colonists to trade only with Britain
All 13 of the British colonies participated in the trans-Atlantic trade…
“Southern” Colonies
“Northern” Colonies
…But regional differences led to a long-term division between the “Southern” & “Northern” colonies
Britain & France went to war 3 times in Europe from 1690-1750
These wars in Europe meant that their colonists would fight too
Both nations used mercantilism
to expand their colonial
claims in order to increase
their wealth
By 1750, Britain & France had become serious rivals because:
During the 1700s, both the British & French
colonies were growing
Land disputes along the Ohio River Valley led to
the French & Indian War
09/10 Bellringer
1. How did winning the French & Indian War set up Britain as the dominant economic power in the world?
2. What effect might this victory have on British mercantilism?
3. How might this war impact the British colonists? Indians?
North America 1763
The growth of the British & French colonies impacted Indians:• French alliances grew stronger• British colonists had many
conflicts with natives1754 Albany Congress
British settlers meet to discuss the common
problem of Indian attacks
Ben Franklin suggested the Albany Plan of Union
(coordinated colonial army) but plan was not
approved
Turning Point: 1754
Washington’s troops were forced to retreat from Fort Duquesne; This clash proved to be the
beginning of the French & Indian War
In 1754, VA governor sent 22 year old George Washington to protect an Ohio Company claim
The French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Britain & the North American colonists vs France, their colonists,
& Indian allies
War started in N. America (1754-1763), but became part of a larger “world” war (Seven
Years War)
1757, British Prime Minister William
Pitt issued a “blank check” to win the war
North America 1754 North America 1763
The war officially ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763France lost Canada, most of its empire in India,
& claims to lands east of the Mississippi River
England gained all French lands in Canada & exclusive rights to the Caribbean slave trade
Spain got all lands west of the Mississippi River, New Orleans, but lost Florida to England
Situation #1According to the
Treaty of Paris in 1763 that ended the French & Indian War, the French have no more
colonies in North America (except Haiti in the Caribbean)
Situation #2
After the end of the French & Indian War,
Parliament decided to leave the British army in North America
Situation #3
The costs of winning the French & Indian War left the British Empire in severe debt that it now
must pay off: British national debt, 1755: £74.6 million British national debt, 1764: £129.6 million
North America 1763 The French & Indian War changed the relationship
between Britain & the American colonists
Colonists excited about the possibility of new
land in the westColonists learned new guerilla fighting tactics
from the IndiansThe “blank check” led to
huge war debts that Parliament expected colonist to help pay
North America 1763 Other problems strained the relationship between
Britain & the colonists after the war:
Britain had to spend more money defending
colonists in the frontierAfter Pontiac’s Rebellion, the Proclamation Line of
1763 was setThe British began
governing their colonies more strictly
New taxes & laws were passed without asking colonial assemblies