...Pontiac’s Rebellion Pontiac was the chief of the Ottawa tribe. Pontiac became the Head of the Council of Three Tribes sometime after he became chief. The Ottawa tribe was one of the many tribes that fought the red coats. Chief Pontiac thought the French would help them fight the British during the rebellion because they had coincided well with the French traders in the area. Chief Pontiac lived from about 1720 to 1769. Chief Pontiac died three years after the rebellion because an Indian from the Peoria tribe killed him. Pontiac disliked the British for the following reasons; the British restricted trade and took over forts within the region. The British did not coexisted well with the Indians living in the Former French territories. This did not sit well with Chief Pontiac. 1763, the Ottawa began what would be referred to as Pontiac’s Rebellion. The rebellion lasted from 1763-1766. I think the British should have never restricted trade or tried to take over Pontiac’s land. Pontiac wanted to drive out the British....
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...By 1763, American colonies were becoming more and more separated from Britain. In 1763-1776 these British imperial policies led to more colonial anger and hatred of British rule. In these 13 years the British enforced new taxes and set up many disliked restrictions on colonial life. All of these changes led the colonies to establishing new principles and later declaring to be separated from England. The British started enforcing taxes in 1763 that did not please the colonies too well. The British thought the colonies should pay an increased tax since they needed money to pay off debts from the French and Indian War. In 1764 the Sugar Act was passed, it taxed sugar and molasses. In 1765 the Stamp Act was passed, it put a tax on all papered goods. The colonists were angry by the taxes and they formed the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty and British tax collectors were tarred and feathered. The colonists refused to trade or buy British goods until the Stamp Act was repealed. In 1765-1766 the Sons of Liberty led over 40 protests up and down the colonial coastline. They were successful in forcing the British to repeal the Stamp Act. In 1767, a new act was passed called the Townshend Acts which put a tax on paper, paint, lead, glass and tea. In 1766, the Declaratory Act was passed and it declared that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies both internally and externally and had absolute power over the colonial legislatures. In 1773, there was a huge rebellion...
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...Ally Wallack Period 4 US history Journal entry 1. (birth until 1763) Pontiac also known as Obwandiyag was born around 1720, but people are unsure of his real date of birth. Although little is known about Pontiac’s youth, it is believed he was born along the Maumee River in Ohio, along to an Ottawa father and a Chippewa mother. although his parents came from 2 tribes he was still considered part of the Ottawa tribe. Ottawa babies were not named until a few months old, giving parents time to come up with their names, which are important and meaningful to them. The exact meaning of his name has not been determined, but some people referred to him as Obwandiyag (this was mainly the British colonists). As a young boy he was taught many skills to to help him to hunt and survive like any other Native American man would need to know. Many of their tools were probably influenced by the French traders, while their old tools were replaced with more powerful weapons, that made life much easier for them. In addition to learning how to survive, he was also taught the traditions of his tribe to be able to fit in. Education was traditionally taught by their Ottawa family, so they could decide how and what they wanted to teach their children, or teach them nothing at all....
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...Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763, The sugar act, The stamp act, The Declaratory act, The Townsend act, The Boston massacre, The Boston tea party, And the Intolerable acts. It was a time of chaos for the colonists. The first thing that happened was the Navigation act. The Navigation act of 1660 Was the Navigation act that bad? Yes, yes it was. The Navigation act of 1660 was the first act passed on the colonies. It made it so colonists had to use English ships when they...
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...CHAPTER 3 America in the British Empire ANTICIPATION/REACTION Directions: Before you begin reading this chapter, place a check mark beside any of the following seven statements with which you now agree. Use the column entitled “Anticipation.” When you have completed your study of this chapter, come back to this section and place a check mark beside any of the statements with which you then agree. Use the column entitled “Reaction.” Note any variation in the placement of checkmarks from anticipation to reaction and explain why you changed your mind. Anticipation Reaction _____ 1. _____ 1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____ 7. The British government usually left American colonists to make their own laws pertaining to local matters. American colonial trade was severely crippled by British trade laws. The European Enlightenment had little influence on the thought of American colonists. Because they were part of the British empire, colonists were constantly involved in England’s imperial wars with France and Spain. Parliament taxed the American colonists as a way to express its authority over them, not because it needed. the money. Colonists protested the Sugar Act and Stamp Act as violations of their rights as Americans. Colonists protested the Tea Act because it threatened to raise the price of tea. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____ 7. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading Chapter 3 you...
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...When thinking about the causes of the American Revolution, many tend to primarily list events that happened just before 1776: taxation without representation, the boycotts of British goods, and the Boston Tea Party, as examples. But the tensions that led the American colonists to wage war against Britain had existed over a century before the first battles and involved a series of different gripes with the government besides taxation. Over the course of a hundred years, the colonies grew distrustful and disdainful towards their government, and increasing violence in the 1770s finally led to the Revolutionary War. Many people erroneously believe that the causes for the American Revolution stem from the colonists having a different cultural identity than the British. American colonists in the 18th century saw themselves as English, not American, and emulated British clothing, architecture, and etiquette in a process called Anglicization. Furthermore, there was no united “American” identity between the thirteen colonies at the time. Each region “had developed...
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...ic 1763-1787 Following the Proclamation of 1763, American rage toward the British Empire began to aggravate, and one of its earlier manifestations, aside from liberal boycotts of British goods, was the development of committees of correspondence. Started by the outspoken Samuel Adams, leader of the Sons of Liberty, the Committees began in Boston in 1772 and spread to some eighty towns in the colonies. These committees developed into an inter-colonial committee, and allowed supporters of rebellion to plan their activities and communicate, and joined with the American press, the colonists could spread word about such slights as the ill-named and, to the colonists, horrifying, Boston Massacre which wasn’t a real massacre. For his part, Samuel...
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...After the French and Indian War of 1754 to 1763, Great Britain was the premier colonial power in North America. The Treaty of Paris (1763) more than doubled British territories in North America and eliminated the French as a threat. While British power seemed more secure than ever, signs of trouble began to brew in the colonies. The colonists began feeling the confidence that sweet victory brings. They increasingly saw themselves as a separate entity, one that could defend itself against any opposing threat. However, this era of independence ended suddenly when King George III and Parliament began affirming their need for the colonies in order to remain a world power and to generate revenue through taxes and trade. The British government began to increase control over the colonies and levied taxes, which in turn led to infuriated colonists and the inevitable rebellion known as the American Revolution. Following the French and Indian War, the colonists felt a wonderful rush of independence upon them. Americans had even developed their own economic system within British mercantilism. They became economically and politically independent with their own government structures as well. Once somebody tastes a little bit of freedom, they will undoubtedly want more. Once their independence emerged, the colonists believed that they could thrive on their own. However, Great Britain began imposing heavy taxes because the war had left the country with a huge debt that had to be paid. Parliament...
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...Negative effects of slave revolts in the Caribbean * Slave revolts in the Caribbean such as the rebellion of Sam Sharpe/Christmas Rebellion (1831), tended to harden positions among plantation owners in defense of slavery. * Slave uprisings, or rebellions and revolts, were frequent and were ferociously put down by plantation owners. The idea was to put off future rebels by showing them how any rebellion would be punished. Participants of rebellions were often publicly killed ‘by progressive mutilation, slow burnings, breaking on the wheel. * Lead to suppression of abolitionist expression in the Caribbean and dissuaded some against abolition. * The Abolitionist movement in the Caribbean really didn't grow until the 1840s and 50s, so from the Berbice/Coffy Revolt (1763) to the uprisings in Haiti (1791), there was relatively little abolitionist sentiment in the Caribbean. * Some would argue what the rebellions actually did was scare slave owners in the Caribbean, and lead to a series of legal reforms and slave codes designed to make revolts more difficult. * Slave owners through-out the region suffered massive destruction of property and loss of lives. Positive Effects of slave revolts in the Caribbean * Antislavery movements grew stronger and bolder, especially in Great Britain, and the colonial slaves themselves became increasingly more restless. * The impact of the Haitian Revolution (1791) was both immediate and widespread. The antislavery...
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...2013 The story of Pontiac’s War is one of great tragedy and of great change in the geographic area of the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes Region and present day Illinois. We will look at this topic from the point of few of the American Indian who inhabits the vast area of the frontier, and the British Policies that were conducted that helped ignite hostilities. Another item for consideration is did these policies and the way the British Army conducted the war possibly set into motion more conflicts that led to the American Revolution. In 1759 white men were discovered in what is now present day Michigan by a band of Ottawa, Huron and Potawatomi. As would be the norm to strangers in a land that did not belong to them the question was asked by the leader of the Ottawa’s Pontiac why they were there. After the trading of gifts the British Rangers explained that they were there only to remove the French. The French and Indian War and been raging across the globe for 5 years. The Ottawa had allied themselves with the French but explained to the British Rangers that upon French removal they would accept the policies of the British Crown, on the condition that if the Indians felt ignored by the British King then all routes into the lush interior of the Ohio Valley would be closed off to them. The treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War which officially ended in 1760. The end of this conflict caused great alarm among the Indians, from there point of view the land was there’s. The...
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...several factors that brought to the rise of independence and American Revolution can be discussed from the most important, to the moderately not important. One of the most significant factors was the limitations of the colonist's civil liberties which were imposed by the British. While the less important was how the British parliament implemented the taxation also how the British military actions that the British took to suppress the Lower still was the British American nationalist. The least factor was the because of the political ideas and legacy of colonial religious. One of the most vital factors that contributed to the American rebellion in 1776 was the limitations of the colonist's civil independence by the British. This took away their freedom unlike other factors. By seizing their absolute rights e.g. pursuit of happiness, life, and liberty this led to rebellion. The British took their jobs, food and their home as well. They also took their government's money by means of the navigation acts that was enforced in 1763. The 1765 act (quartering act) states that the colonists had to offer food, supplies and shelter, food to British troops. In conclusion, there are many other factors that led to the rebellion in America in 1776 but some factors are seen to have more weight than others. As the statement or declaration of Independence says, "…provided or gifted by their creator with certain absolute rights; such as the pursuit of happiness, life, and liberty that at any given...
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...The Colonial wars was a bunch of wars that stretched from 1689 until 1763. Many different parties were represented in the wars. Among them were Britain, France, Spain, and various Native American tribes. All of these parties fought to retain control of the Colonies in North America. The Colonial wars can be broken down into four wars; King William's War, which started in 1689 and ended in 1697, Queen Anne's War, which went from 1702 until 1711, King George's War, which went from 1744 until 1748, and The French and Indian War, which started in 1754 and ended in 1763. King William's War, the first of the Colonial Wars chronologically, was a war between the English and French. The main cause of the war was because neither country wanted to give up their land in the newly settled America. The French struck first, along with the Wabanaki Confederacy, and attacked several english colonies in the New York and New England areas. The English repelled the attacks with the aid of the Iroquois tribe and then countered by attacking Port Royal. The English took Port Royal under the leadership of Sir William Phips. Then the war consisted mainly of small raids, skirmishes, and various missions to pilage small colonies on both sides until the battle of Quebec came along. The battle of Quebec was the largest battle of the war where the English attacked the city of Quebec with over 2,000 men. The attack was repelled by the French and lead to the Treaty of Ryswick being signed in 1697...
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...General Edward Braddock The war did not begin well for the British. The British Government sent General Edward Braddock to the colonies as commander in chief of British North American forces, but he alienated potential Indian allies and colonial leaders failed to cooperate with him. On July 13, 1755, Braddock died after being mortally wounded in an ambush on a failed expedition to capture Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh. The war in North America settled into a stalemate for the next several years, while in Europe the French scored an important naval victory and captured the British possession of Minorca in the Mediterranean in 1756. However, after 1757 the war began to turn in favor of Great Britain. British forces defeated French forces in India, and in 1759 British armies invaded and conquered Canada....
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...The Impact of the Franco- Britain Conflict on Subsequent Events “The global struggle between the French and British Empire influenced certain key events in history from 1750 to 1805. These events including the French and Indian war, by the seven year war, the American Revolution, the French Revolution and it's impact on American domestic and foreign policies, and the Louisiana purchase and it's consequences.” Colonial era diplomacy focused on the European balance of power. The competition between the French and the British often influenced the course of events in the North American colonies. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775 For almost three centuries, the European colonial powers of France and Great Britain, maintained...
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...first permanent English colony in North America. It struggled in the beginning, just as previous colonies like the one at Roanoke did. However, it endured the first few years and eventually became a successful colony. By 1732 twelve other British colonies existed in North America. Each had been founded for its own reason: Massachusetts as a refuge for puritans; Georgia as a destination for debtors. Despite these differences they had several important uniting features. The king of England granted and gave legitimacy to each colony’s charter. Each had a royal governor. Each created their political and social institutions based on British principles. In general North American colonists admired the British constitution and were proud to call themselves Englishmen. Several English wars resulted in bloodshed in America: Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War, and the French and Indian War. Rebellions also occurred occasionally, e.g. Bacon’s Rebellion. Taking into account all of this, the American colonies prospered under British rule and existed in relative peace and harmony with their mother country. Beginning after the end of the French and Indian War, the status quo began to change. In the thirteen years from 1763 to 1776 Americans went from content British citizens to rebels fighting for independence. Because Americans were able to evolve their own ideas about the natural rights of men, adopt their own philosophy on government, establish their own political institutions, and build a robust...
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