HIST 020 Lecture Notes - Virtual Representation, Quartering Acts, Stamp Act Congress
29 Jan 2014
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Great war for empire; stamp act crisis; townshend: british wars. British and american colonies fight side by side: when the war is over, there is controversy over paying for it. After austrian war, the french move further inland (british hug the coast) and expand trade using the mississippi river. Both the french and the british wanted to lay claim in western. French befriended the natives and claimed the land by way of lead plaques vi. French constructed a series of forts to protect their claim: word got around to british colonists in virginia, they had to do something about this, virginia government sent major george washington to ft. Le boeuf to ask the french to leave. Date: / / : 21 years old, 6ft 3in tall, middle son of an aristocratic family of 8 (gets nothing, french refused to leave and washington heads back to. 1754: went back to virginia defeated ii.
