Tensions Created By French And American Colonies By Alan Taylor

French colonists worked to integrate with the native people, to both force their religion on them and to learn their skills as fur traders. Men married native women and with the families they formed, they then went about organizing the fur trade, which aided French expansion in the South and West. Farming, while encouraged by their government, did not compare with the wealth to be gained from the fur trade and was largely a failure. Even though, the English were, initially, aided by the native peoples in alliances and commercial contracts, they did not seek to integrate with them. While the English started out as being friendly towards them, native peoples were treated as mostly peripheral, or insignificant to English society.

The experience of the IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY in current-day northern New York provides a clear example of the consequences of the Revolution for American Indians. The Iroquois represented an alliance of six different native groups who had responded to the dramatic changes of the colonial era more successfully than most other Indians in the eastern third of North America. Their political alliance, which had begun to take shape in the 15th- century, even before the arrival of European colonists, was the most durable factor in their persistence in spite of the disastrous changes brought on by European contact. During the American Revolution, the Confederacy fell apart for the first time since its creation as different Iroquois groups fought against

As the war had started to come to a close the French had lost many Forts, but one major Fort was Fort Detroit and the British had taken over. When all was said in done the British had occupied Fort Detroit and a man named Captain Donald Campbell had occupied the Fort. He was a Scottish man who was able to get along with the French civilians left after Fort Detroit was taken and he was also able to gain the respect and trust of the Native Americas. One man he truly got the respect from was Chief Pontiac, and the two had developed a friendship as time went on. As time went on though, the British had started to change policy and rules of trade.

The colonies relied on France for aid, but this gave France an undue amount of influence. As LaFeber explains, “No sooner did France promise to help, however, than Vergennes instructed his agents in the New World to keep the United States as small and weak as possible” (LaFeber, 23). “By 1779-1780, the Continental Congress seemed to be a slave to Vergennes. Its sad state was not due solely to the number of American politicians on the French payroll…but because U.S. survival seemed to depend on French help.”

(Stated in document B). The proclamation stated that the Indian land was reserved to the west of the Appalachians and stop citizens from taking the land without a correct licence. (Stated and explained in document C). If the colonist already lived in the new Indian land they were forced to move. The treaties did not stay in place, and rules were broke.

The American colonies encountered a challenge during the American Revolution that resulted in a need for international support and diplomacy. America required an alliance with France in order to have a chance to defeat the British Empire. After France’s loss to its enemy, England during the Seven Years War and the American’s victory in the Battle of Saratoga, they now have a motive to support America’s fight for independence. In 1778, the French decided to join the Americans to help weaken the British’s Empire and to gain access to trading posts of the New World that they lost during the French and Indian War. Fortuneatly, the French were able to assist the American’s in holding off some British navy from the battles of the American Revolution.

Suzannah Gray Ms. Dailey October 2015 DBQ on French and Indian War During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), many things changed for for both Britain and its American colonies. Politically, economically, and ideologically, significant changes occurred that had lasting affects. Politically, territory and land claims became very different, government and profession choices, and attitudes towards power. Economically, trade regulations became an immediate necessity, money problems swept through the colonies, and they looked for solution wherever they could. Ideologically, American colonists spirits were changing because of dreadful life, yet, they became more enthusiastic about religion then they ever had been, they looked at the Prospect

The French and Indian War altered the relations of the American Colonies and Britain through political, economic, and geographical issues. At the start of the French and Indian War the French owned a big majority of land but the during the war the French lost their land to the English. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 gave the English, the French land of North America (Doc A).

The Indians were ready to resume trade. The French had not joined the British as the American Indians had hoped. The outcome of the French and Indian War affected all three powers. The American Indians were faced with British rulers who were not going to stop the flow of settlers into the Ohio River Valley and other native lands. The Ohio River Valley Indians eventually loss their land.

If one nation acquired too much gold the prices of goods would greatly increase forcing bad economy. another conflict nations had was type of religion. Different religions had different beliefs, the different beliefs led to conflict and war. The places in America that the French settled were Florida, Eastern Canada, Acadia, Quebec, and

Throughout the seventeenth century, conflict between Europeans and Native Americans was rampant and constant. As more and more Europeans migrated to America, violence became increasingly consistent. This seemingly institutionalized pattern of conflict begs a question: Was conflict between Europeans and Native Americans inevitable? Kevin Kenny and Cynthia J. Van Zandt take opposing sides on the issue. Kevin Kenny asserts that William Penn’s vision for cordial relations with local Native Americans was destined for failure due to European colonists’ demands for privately owned land.

Explanations of the American Revolution are extracted from the real life accounts of individuals who were directly involved in the activities that took place during this period. One of the Key authors focused in the essay is Mary Jemison, a white woman married into the American Indian tribe of Seneca. She lived the better part of her life alongside the Seneca community and endured a multitude of experiences that enabled her to write about her compelling account of the American Revolution from the year 1775-1779. Indian tribes lived in harmony along the whites, who were the Colonialists and the Americans. During the time of writing of the accounts, most of the States were under colonial rule, but the grip that the colonialists had on the people was sleeping away as rebel groups formed to fight off the oppressive reign of the colonialists.

The Native Americans had no choice but to play the French and British against each other. By the time of the French and Indian War, they were not just playing the French against the British for goods and guns. (1) It became necessary for the survival of their culture, and the natives were concerned with the vast amounts of land being claimed and settled by the British. The French and Indians were more likely to be allies, although the British did have Native American allies.

French officials noticed the fights going on between England and the Colonies and they planned how the situation could play out for their own advantage. The French decided that on the plan of helping the American’s in several ways. First, they bought things from the americans like wheat, tobacco, salted fish, and indigo.

To understand the relationships between Native populations, the French, and the English, the views of each needs to be taken into account. The English saw the New World as an opportunity for wealth that the landed gentry saw in their homeland. Land is important for the English, it enabled the owner to toil the land for their own wealth rather than the wealth of others. Land is a symbol of power and control of their own lives. They wanted complete ownership, building towns and farmsteads.