Due to over ambitious wars and extravagant spending on courts, Louis XIV and Louis XV had been successful in helping to bankrupt France. The cost of the wars was great in two ways. ... War broke out and France quickly became an Empire from the leadership of Napoleon. ... However, the wars caused great loss of life and destruction, and France's wealth was continually drained. ... It was issued to protect the colonies from the Indians and French in that land. ...

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All the Indians are killed except Magua, who gets away again. ... Therewith Heyward leads a repulse of the engaging French. ... In my opinion, Cooper didn't appear to be taking sides with the French or the English as well as with the "whites" and the "reds". ... Part IV: Ideas, Concepts, or Summary Propositions I feel that the following four events were very crucial to the conclusion of The Last of the Mohicans: the war between the French and English; the attack of the Hurons against the Munro girls, Gamut and Heywerd (on the journey to the fort); the English surrender to the ...

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Another major event that helped determine that American values were left untouched was the French Indian War. In essence, the French and Indian War altered the relationships between Britain and the American colonies. ... The French and Indian War was the first time that the colonist became united as a nation being able to fight a major power in the world and win. The sense of isolationism that was present in the decades before the French and Indian War showed American that they could things on their own with out having the mother country run their lives. Once the French and Indian war was ove...

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(Brinkley, p. 44) During the French and Indian War, the tension between the English and Native Americans began to further develop. Nearly all of the North American tribes sided and fought with the French against the English. ... The Iroquois were hesitant to fight the French for a known fear of them. ... After the American patriots won the war, they (Americans) slaughtered 96 Delaware Indians for the attack on a white family. ... Indians took Ft. ...

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Before the American Revolution, the American colonists and the British army fought together in the French and Indian War. ... "[King George III, pg. 2] This brought specific harm to the colonists, because their reason for fighting in the French and Indian war was to win land. ... The Americans had fought hard in the French and Indian War, and they now saw what they believed to be rightfully theirs, given to the former enemy as an affront. ... The French now had the same resources and profitable goods that the colonies had, the Americans now had to compete for customers with France. The Pr...

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The American colonists and the British had just defeated the French in the middle of the 1700s in the French and Indian war. ... Although the colonist participation was held to a minimum, they had learned a powerful lesson from the French and Indian War. ... The basis for the Civil War was economic "slavery. ... Violence was justified in both wars. ... In the case of the Civil War, violence was justified to end a cruel institution. ...

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Their harsh taxes and powerful authority over the American colonists triggered the revolutionary war. ... The Revolutionary war fought from 1775-1783 was the War for Independence from the British Empire leaving the 13 colonies to be an independent nation and become the United States. ... The French and Indian War also known, as the Seven Years War in Europe was a huge conflict between England and France and their Indian allies. ... There were several reasons for this, one being that the Indians still posed a threat to the British government and the other being that the French and Indian War wh...

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The American colonists and the British had just defeated the French in the middle of the 1700s in the French and Indian war. ... Although the colonist participation was held to a minimum, they had learned a powerful lesson from the French and Indian War. ... The basis for the Civil War was economic "slavery. ... Violence was justified in both wars. ... In the case of the Civil War, violence was justified to end a cruel institution. ...

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In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in Europe as the Seven Years War, (1754-1763) and the aftermath. The French and Indian war took place in America. The French and their Indian allies fought the Americans and British soldiers for control of the Ohio Valley in order to gain access to the, very lucrative, Mississippi river. ... Slowly they took control over the war and forced...

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Many natives who resisted the occupation of Spanish died as a result of wars and battles. ... The continuous decade long pressure by the priests forced Spanish government to take ineffective measures to stop Indian slavery. ... So they largely depended upon Indian population as they easily adapted to mountains and were considerably cheap. ... The Spanish and Portuguese empires had to spend hefty amounts to protect the ships containing gold and silver against pirate attacks by French, Dutch or English. The flow of silver and gold into Spanish and Portuguese empires supported the administration,...

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Following the Revolutionary War, many tribulations arose in the newly independent thirteen colonies. ... American industry was difficult, since British citizens flooded the country with cheap goods right after the war, continuing their chain of trading posts on the U.S. soil. ... Spain, still resentful for losing the French and Indian War, closed the Mississippi River to American commerce. ... The French even demanded the repayment of money loaned during the war, regardless of their past-alliance with America. ... Many other laws were made concerning the importation and exportation of fo...

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The first English colonists "homogeneous as they were "still had to learn to coexist with the Indians in the feral American wilderness. ... From 1680-1770, the overall east coast Indian population declined 50-75%, with many tribes disappearing altogether. While Africans and Indians had different fates (the Africans continued to exist "albeit enslaved "while the Indians died out), their mistreatment at the hands of the European settlers stemmed from a single phenomenon "ethnocentrism. ... Similarly, the Indians were seen only as sources of trade, and as useful allies...

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From the colonies being exploited economically by the British Empire to pay off its war debts, the British imposing more and more regulations on the colonies, to the ever diminishing, self-governance of the colonies. ... The road to revolution began with the ending of the French and Indian war. After the war, the British Empire had incurred massive debts and saw the colonies as a perfect way to pay them off. ... While this did upset the colonies, this was far from war starting. ... Because of the king squashing the rights the colonists believed they had, as well as inflicting them with tax aft...

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Without the Revolution America would not be the country it is today, it was one of the most influential wars of all times. Without the war America may have had, to this day, to pay taxes to the British Parliament and exist under their rule. ... After the French and Indian war Britain imposed taxes on its American colonies, without the peoples consent, because the colonies were in debt and Britain needed to regain the revenue. ... And so the American Revolutionary war began in 1775. ... The war was brutal and bloody and there were more than three times as many casualties as there were in ...

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The War for Independence only hastened the process along. ... As stated in class before the French and Indian War, many of the objects used in the colonies were manufactured in England. ... The war was not a speedy resolution to the countries problems. ... The period following the War for Independence was unstable and full of change. ... This was the notice that was given in literature that was published after the war. ...

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By doing so, the growing American economy was greatly damaged, especially after the French and Indian War during which thousands of new colonists came due to the abundance of jobs but when the war was over, there were thousands of people poor and hungry (Zinn 60). ...

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The ministers and magistrates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and all the women who wrote history through the Civil War, wrote a form of providential history. ... Helen Hunt Jackson explored white-Indian relations in both fiction and history. Her Century of Dishonor documented the American nation's shameful dealings with Indians. ... In Europe the crisis of depression and war led many historians in radical directions. ...

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Davy Crockett fought under Andrew Jackson, who was also of Irish decent, during the civil war. ... Henry Ford is most well known for Ford Motor Company but very few people know that he was the son of an Irish immigrant who married during the American Civil War. ... At nineteen he left his family to join the French and Indian War. ...

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