HIS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Total War, Quebec Act, Indian Agent
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Native americans and the revolutionary war: taking sides british or american, proclamation of 1763/quebec act 1774, neutral. French indian war: american british, french, british. American: trade, good trade goods, established trade routes, experienced indian agents, indian agency, n s superintendent, land, proclamation of 1763, was a british act, prohibited settlement west of. Frontier raids (ny, pn, sc, nc, ga). : conducted by indian and british, usually by indians and supplied by british guns. Diverted american efforts to frontier: 1776 cherokees ga/carolinas/vi. 1777 5000 soldiers burned cherokee homes/ fields/livestock: total war . Cherokee fled to appalachian mountains: ceded 8,000 acres of land. 2: iroquois ny/pn, 1779 washington, destroying 40 towns. Female warriors hunt harvests: they suffered from starvation. Political division: civil chief war chiefs. Punished indians allied with british by taking their lands. 1790 80,000 settlers moved into western areas: social dislocation/ land loss.
