HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Olive Branch Petition, First Continental Congress, George Grenville
Document Summary
From colonies to nation: the american revolution (october 2) Ii. deal with for another war: none of the colonial assemblies wanted to surrender their power to another body , no one likes the plan except benjamin franklin , failure! The seven years war (1754 (56) 1763: britain and france becomes a european war, yadda yadda, european perspective = 1756. Colonial perspective is 1754: french and the indian war, british regain control of the french half continent is essentially secured. 1759: british defeat the french, 1760 french gave up the land larger war is still going on in europe given french terrirory west of the mississippi river. Ha: colonists and the british interpret outcome differently, british saw it as the british regular army, not the colonial militias. What? their land given away they refused to accept the french"s decision: pontiac"s rebellion: chief of group of natives that lived iowa, launched a series of raids among the frontier.
