Notes

Events Leading to Seven Years' War: (1754-1763)
King Williams War (1689 - 1697)
Fought in Europe
British fail to seize Quebec City
Queen Anne’s War (1702 – 1713)
French destroy Deerfield, Massachusetts
47 French and 200 Indians kill 5 Colonists
109 survivors taken captive – forced to Quebec City
1707 – Scotland joins England and Britain
King George’s War (1744 – 1748)
Most fighting takes place in Caribbean and Georgia
Between Spanish and English
French later join in and British capture part of Nova Scotia
"Seven Years War" is the name for the global conflict between France and England
"French and Indian War" is the name for the fighting just in North America (or the North American Theater of the Seven Years War)
5 Causes of French and Indian War
Disputed land between Appalachian Mts. And Mississippi River (the Ohio Country)
Both British and French want to control fur trade
Roman Catholic French V.S. Protestant English
Fishing Rights in New Foundland
British over-population
1663
35,000--French58,000--English

I.
The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence. Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. It is important to understand the full history of these areas because this is what Americans generally consider to be our nation's beginning.

II.
Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence. Miles killed a guy because he thought the guy was planing to kill him. He stabbed the Indian with the Indians own knife that hanging around the Indian neck. He went into a hut and scared all the Indian so they where trying to run though the walls. That was how America started it was not jest all peaceful it was vary violent.

III.
Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War. Church was in a battle with the Indians for over 6 hours with 20 men fighting over 300 Indians and won. When he kills king Phillip he has him cut up in to 6 pieces and has king Phillips hand pickled in a jar and his head put on a pole so every one can see. Church tells all of his men if they see a Indian they are to shoot them. Church did what ever he had to do keep him and his people alive and killed anyone who got in his way.

IV.
Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. The Pilgrims wanted to have the Indians to fallow there laws and if they don't they would go to jail. They all so wanted Religious Freedom because they couldn't have that where they came from. The Pilgrims are the ones that started Harvard college because they believe that people should have a good education. The Pilgrims came here to have Peace but had to fight for it.

V.
America was founded by the Pilgrims and they wanted peace but they has wars with the Indians because they where taking all of the Indians land. Standish had to fight to protect all of his people and he had to use violence so he could protect them. Church was a good leader because he was smart and strong and he could battle the Indians with jest 20 men and get away. Even though the Pilgrims were violent they jest wanted Freedom and peace. The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence. That was how America started it was not jest all peaceful it was vary violent. Church did what ever he had to do keep him and his people alive and killed anyone who got in his way. The Pilgrims came here to have Peace but had to fight for it.