From Comfort to Discontent

How did obedient little colonists get so freakin’ mad?!?

Economic Strain Three different sections of original 13

colonies: North, Middle, South Navigation Acts, 1660

Good for most, bad for New England/North colonies (no crops to sell back)

Colonies Become More Independent

Virginia House of Burgesses

Loser governors from England didn’t have any real power

The Plot Thickens…Euro Land Disputes Britain and France STILL hated each

other… Both wanted Ohio Valley Geo. Washington against the French…

Frenchies win Native Americans choose the French side

(duh!)

Red Uniforms BADSmart commander GOOD Start of war, British

lost many battles--stood out like ducks in a gallery

New guy (James Wolfe) turns the tide

Quebec taken! <Sacré bleu!>

War Ends, Problems Begin France loses most of (now) U.S.

territory Britain is most powerful nation in

world (Mua ha ha!) Native Americans got the most raw

deal Pontiac’s “Conspiracy”

Proclamation of 1763 (Important…hint, hint…) Colonists could not go west of Appalachian

crest Indian reservation (for now…)

Wasn’t land what the colonists were fighting for all along?!

After the War, Colonists Frustrated British troops to “keep peace” in colonies,

paid for by…colonists?! First of many unpopular British political

moves that eventually led to Revolution