Crash Course US History 5 Seven Years War & Great Awakening

This video covers “Events that led to the events that led to the French Revolution.”

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The Seven Years War was also called “The French and Indian War.”

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Causes of the Seven Years War include all these except:

• Economics/mercantilism

• The French attack on Washington D.C.

• Demand for raw materials and new land

• British rivalry with the French

George Washington led an effort to eject the French from forts in Western PA, and was met with nothing but success in a series of battles.

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The British took Nova Scotia and kicked out the French Acadians, many of whom died in “The Expulsion”; others settled in LA and became Cajuns.

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The tide of the war began to turn, in favor of the Brits, with the capture of Forts Duquesne, Ticonderoga, etc...

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Briefly react to this quote from the video: “the rest of the battles aren’t that important, unless you were fighting in them.”

Outcomes of the French and Indian War include all these except:

• British were victorious in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and India.

• France took control of Spain, creating the “Franco-Spanish Empire”

• War ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

• Britain got Canada from France and Florida from Spain

According to the video, because of what followed, the real losers in the war were…

• The French

• The Spanish

• Native Americans

• The British

The attitude of the British was that the “Indians” were a hindrance, would work for their enemies, and the problem should be “remedied.”

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