Why Did the Wars for Empire Matter?

 

Date

War (Name in Colonies)

Between Britain and…

Indians/Blacks

Involved

British Colonies

Involved

Consequences - Significance

Spain

France

Other

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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