Period 3: 1754-1800
APUSH – MS. JUSTICE - BHS
TRIUMPH & TENSIONS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
A FRAGILE PEACE
Ohio Valley
• Key to controlling N. America
• British
• French
• Iroquois Confederacy
• Local Indians
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR IN AMERICA
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
• George Washington
• General Edward Braddock: early defeats
• Two turning points in 1758
• Iroquois
• William Pitt
• Surrender of Montreal in 1760
THE END OF FRENCH NORTH AMERICA
• 1763 – Treaty of Paris
• Land and claims east of the
Mississippi (except New Orleans)
• Florida
Britain
• Treaty of Ildefonso
• Acadians/Cajuns
ANGLO-AMERICAN TENSIONS
ANGLO-AMERICAN FRICTION
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Pacifist Quakers
Quartering of British soldiers
Economic Concerns: profits & debt
King George III
FRONTIER TENSIONS
• Allies vs. subjects
• Pontiac’s War
• Proclamation of 1763