Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
• 1607 – Jamestown - Virginia • 1620 – Plymouth Rock – Massachusetts – Over the next century – huge influx of people migrating to the colonies • By this time – 13 colonies or English colonies • To the west – French settlements – They begin to battle over territory - Pittsburgh – French and Indians against the British and colonists – American theatre of the Seven Years’ War (1756) – Both end in 1763 – Treaty of Paris • French land becomes British land • Trade, land to settle • Britain claimed French land east of the Mississippi River • French lands west of Mississippi River - Spain • Treaty ends French power • Settlement was prohibited beyond Appalachian Mountains – land acquired – Avoiding further wars with Natives • This created much resentment by colonists toward crown • British in debt – costly war • Tax Colonists – pay off debt – They benefited from war • 1765 – Stamp Act – Legal documents, papers • Need stamp to be legitimate – No representation in Parliament for Colonists