HIST 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James Wolfe, Hubertusburg, London Company
16 Jun 2017
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Terms: chesapeake, plymouth, jamestown, ren -robert de lasalle, allegheny, Monongehela, fort duquesne, james wolfe, sir geoffrey amherst, hubertusburg, Acadia, marquis de montclam, james otis, barry st. leger, barbary, algiers. Topics: seven-year war in north america, consequences, american revolution. Franco-british rivalry also applies to overseas empires (n. america) 1604: france: 1st monopoly of fur trade -- > 1st commercial enterprise. 1607: london company arrives in chesapeake bay to found jamestown. 1620: 2nd colony: plymouth -- > not so much commercial purposes, but to flee persecution (separatists) Jamestown: commercial colony agriculture sold cash crop tabacco to uk (slave labor) Plymouth: religious, scholarly community (harvard) -- > emphasized public moral, ethics (1st abolitionists came from here) 1st 2 colonies: va and ma very different. French claims were much larger than british or spanish but british population soars into the millions (france less than 100,00) Queen ann"s war (spain lost florida, france lost newfoundland and new.
