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French and Indian War
English Settlements
• 1607 – Jamestown - Virginia• 1620 – Plymouth Rock –
Massachusetts– Over the next century – huge
influx of people migrating to the colonies
French and Indian War - 1754
• By this time – 13 colonies or English colonies• To the west – French settlements– They begin to battle over territory - Pittsburgh– French and Indians against the British and
colonists– American theatre of the Seven Years’ War (1756)– Both end in 1763 – Treaty of Paris• French land becomes British land• Trade, land to settle
Treaty of Paris
• Britain claimed French land east of the Mississippi River
• French lands west of Mississippi River - Spain
• Treaty ends French power
Proclamation of 1763
• Settlement was prohibited beyond Appalachian Mountains – land acquired– Avoiding further wars with
Natives
• This created much resentment by colonists toward crown
Huge Debt
• British in debt – costly war• Tax Colonists – pay off debt– They benefited from war
• 1765 – Stamp Act– Legal documents, papers
• Need stamp to be legitimate
– No representation in Parliament for Colonists