Why Did the Wars for Empire Matter?

Date	War (Name in Colonies)	Between Britain and…			Indians/Blacks Involved	British Colonies Involved	Consequences - Significance
Date	War (Name in Colonies)	Spain	France	Other	Indians/Blacks Involved	British Colonies Involved	Consequences - Significance
1739- 1744	War of Jenkin’s Ear	X			Mose-free blacks (SC)	Olgethorpe (GA)	A draw
1744- 1748	War of the Austrian Succession (King George’s War)		X			MA attacked and won at Louisbourg.	1747-Impressment in Boston A draw + British give Louisbourg back to France.
1754- 1763	Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War)	X – later	X	Austria, Russia	Indians with French - except for the Iroquois	1754 - Fort Necessity, a defeat 1754 – Albany Plan by B. Franklin	British-colonial views of each other Rise of William Pitt British victory = debt, land¹, and an Indian problem
1763-1765	Indian wars over the Ohio Valley				Pontiac’s War – British, with the competitor gone, raise prices and more.		Proclamation of 1763

¹Land changes = Britain gained Florida from Spain and what is now Canada and what is now the US to the Mississippi from France. Spain gained New Orleans and kept what is now the US west of the Mississippi.

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