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Crash Course Ep 5 - The French and Indian War

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hi I'm John Green this is Crash Course u.s. history and today we're going to discuss  who led to the American Revolution history fan to remember Winston Churchill referred to as the first world war Dominicans called play we're just going to call it the Seven Years War on account of how it lasted for 9 years so hear a crash course we take a broad view of history and rather than talking about the my new details of Wars we try to focus on the important stuff pauses effects anytime Vladimir Putin might show up and teacup kitten economics class because I don't remember signing up for that's the great thing about history you can't put the past into little boxes that you study for 50 minutes a day until the Bell Rings you can't separate what happened from what people wanted and change and valued economic theory of the British Empire in the 18th century when was really listening in order to increase national production who insure a favorable balance of trade and colonies were an awesome way to create this favorable trade balance because they both produce raw materials and bought back finished goods made from those so you can have more and more colonists to buy finished give me the most important colonial trade goods were tobacco and sugar and both of those crops relied heavily on slave labor and slaves themselves were a key trade good in the so-called triangular trade between Europe Africa and the colonies as one historian put it the growth and prosperity of the emerging Society of free Colonial British America where he does a result of slave labor new Britain's greatest rival in the eighteenth century was France like on paper the Spanish had a more significant Empire in North America they've certainly been there longer but their empire was released repopulate in fact by 1800 Los Angeles the most populous town in Spanish California had a population of 300 and only 17 freeways popular even so by 1750 they were only about 65,000 French colonist most of them in the Saint Lawrence River Valley there about I don't know maybe it was somewhere over here this is it a terribly detailed map and also you're not looking at it the moving into the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys and forming alliances with American Indians there to try to dominate the fur and deerskin trades and not prove problematic more is usually have a really complicated causes and it's very rare that we can refer to one thing as making them inevitable fortunately the Seven Years War is the exception to that rule which means it's time for Mongol Tosh I guess they heard there was an exception in town so in 1749 the governor of Virginia awarded a huge land something called the Ohio company which was basically a real estate development firm designed to benefit the governor of Virginia's friends is bad form because they thought they had rights to the land so the Ohio recognize their like what size me British colonists led by a twenty-one-year-old mubasher turtle named George Washington yes that George Washington from the force they were constructing in Western Pennsylvania contempt in 1754 was a disaster Washington built and then abandon the ironically-named Fort Necessity with the loss of 1/3 of his men it was followed by the play unsuccessful attack on Fort Duquesne now located in downtown Pittsburgh where the French and Indian pounded the British killing 2/3 of General Braddock sources and also General Brad what is didn't go much better for the British for the next two years although they didn't take control of part of Nova Scotia and kick out more than 11,000 French acadians many of whom died and what is called the expulsion some of those who didn't turn it up in Louisiana and became Cajuns but anyway the tide began to turn for the British in 1759 when they captured French for to Duquesne finally Ticonderoga and a Willie Bird the big victory of all came in September when the British trounce the French of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec Montreal surrendered the next year French and Indian War aficionados to fill the gaps in in common with the British were victorious in North America the Caribbean Europe and as far away as India the war continued officially for 3 four years and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 thanks obvious result of the war with territorial changes particularly in the areas of not America won the war they argue we got the short end of the territorial stick Singer Island that much more valuable at least monetarily than 10 if you want to be valuable shock you but with its awesome sugar trade and the Philippines with its proximity to China which were much more valuable than Florida I mean at the time forwarded did not even have Disney World instead it had yellow fever what are losers of the war without the British were the Spanish or the French but the Native Americans and the British and is the British move west Native Americans felt compelled to fight back time for the mystery document simple if I'm wrong about the author of the mystery document I will be shocked by electricity if I am right I will be shocked by my knowledge of 18th century primary sources okay we hungry can see that it is contrary to the maxims of good policy and extremely dangerous to our Frontiers to suffer any Indians of what tribes so ever save within the inhabited parts of this province while we are engaged in an Indian War as experience has taught us that they are all perfidious and their claim to freedom and Independence puts it in power to act as spies to entertain and give intelligence to our enemies and to furnish them with provisions and warlike stores to this fatal intercourse between her pretended friends and open please we must describe the greatest of the ravages and murders that have been committed in the course of this and the last Indian War we therefore pray that this grievance be taken under consideration patient in remedy to know usually you either know it or you don't and I don't see author is clearly not an Indian the first person plural makes me think the author is probably not an individual which makes order certainly we're getting a taste of attention between colonists and Native Americans on the frontier who is it serious I told you to be fine an armed revolt what Americans did manage to besiege Detroit and kill hundreds of settlers which Parliament issued the Proclamation line of 1763 which forbidden settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and Reserve that territory for Indians do you remember that the British colonists had just finished fighting a war in order to get the right to move into that very territory your mind and got down to settling end of Seven Years War new ideas like republicanism we're taking root in the colonies government without a king but in the colonies it came to mean something when was equal Republicans believed that only property-owning citizens possessed virtue which was defined in the 18th century not as being like morally good but as a willingness to subordinate one's personal in to the public going back to a Roman idea century were called liberalism citizens natural rights which were defined by John Locke as life liberty and property liberals like lock governments with the result of the social contract whereby individuals would give up some of their Liberty in exchange for a government protecting their natural rights republicanism and liberalism were undermining shop Whitaker Authority and so was the Great Awakening in which Americans awakened from being very religious to being super religious raise the 18th century and it was a revitalization of religious feeling energized by Revival meetings in the introduction of new denominations skins unless you count to Catholics running Maryland light ministers who plays less of an emphasis on predestination and more on an individual's experience of Salvation or being born again show me after the arrival of the Englishman George Whitefield who put on a preaching to her from 1739 to 1741 to avoid hours of damnation in BC is in the Islamic Reform movement it's still very closely associated with Saudi Arabia began in the Middle East around the same time so one of the keys in the American Revolution play by economics partly by political philosophies that undermined faith in governance from afar and partly by religious revivals that criticized not only church hierarchies but also other aspects of cologne Society criticize their religious leaders and established religious Norms is it any wonder that they would criticize the acts of a parliament working an ocean away we'll find out next week thanks for watching directed by Stan Miller script supervisor is written by myself Johnson and Rapid team is thought bubble it will be answered by play awesome

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