HIST 3420 Lecture 10: Losing the American Colonies
7 Feb 2019
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Theme: the rivalry between the british and the french. There are still other players like the dutch and they do maintain a colonial empire. They key driving force and rivalry is the british and the french. Before the 1660 the population, the french were the pioneers of the. The fur trade was the key basis of the colonial rivalry and the access of the trade and it depended on the unsettled north america. Unsettled in the sense of not being under the possession and having property rights being established and that did not exists the settled part. The reliant of a series of contact french along the st. lawrence and the great lakes. New france: france"s strong foothold in north america since the mid 17th century. Fur trade- britain lays claim to hudson"s bay region in 1668: colonial warfare, with use of indian allies, over hudson"s bay, British want access to the fur trade region.
