The French and Indian War and
the End of Salutary Neglect
Immigration, Education, and
Culture
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Most populous colonies-Virginia, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland
Agricultural based
Diverse- Pennsylvania: Germans and Pennsylvania to
Georgia: Scots-Irish (Great Wagon Road)
French, Welsh, Dutch, Swedes, Jews, Swiss
10% owned 2/3 of wealth
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Ministry, physicians, lawyers
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Colonial economy:
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Tobacco (Maryland and Virginia)
Grain
Fishing
Lumber
Trade
Manufacturing
Shipbuilding
Dominant Denominations
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Anglican: Southern and parts of New York
Congregational: New England
Religious toleration
Great Awakening 1730s and 1740s (faith)
Education
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New England
Bible
Colleges
Science: Ben Franklin
Architecture
Journalism
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Colonial wars fought for expansion, territory, raw
materials, new markets for exports
French and Indian War most important in shaping
America's identity
Washington's role (The Journal of Major George
Washington)
Fort Necessity
Outnumbered, surrendered-George Washington
ordered the shots that began the French and
Indian War.
French
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Outnumbered 90,000/1.5 million
Better organized
More experienced
Indian allies
English
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William Pitt
Naval warfare
Small pox blankets (natives)
Benjamin Franklin
Cartoon in the Pennsylvania Gazette
May 9, 1754
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This cartoon shows a snake cut into eight pieces, each
labeled with the name of one of the colonies. The position
of each colony in the snake corresponds to the geographic
position of the colonies along the American coast, with the
snake's tail pointing south and the head pointing north.
The colonies, from tail to head (south to north), are: South
Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, and New England (New England
referred to the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, and New Hampshire). The caption reads,
"JOIN, or DIE."
The cartoon appeared along with Franklin's editorial about
the "disunited state" of the colonies, and helped make his
point about the importance of colonial unity. At the time,
there was a superstition that a snake which had been cut
into pieces would come back to life if the pieces were put
together before sunset.
Albany Plan of Union- for defense, fails and shows disunity
of the colonies
Treaty of Paris 1763
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Canada
America east of the Mississippi Valley
Florida
Many Caribbean Islands
French overseas trade crippled by the navy
Taxation
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Proclamation
of 1763
French
Natives
Pontiac's
Rebellion
Colonists
(Ottawa)
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What do sugar and stamps have to
do with revolutions?
Liberties
Salutary neglect
Defense of their American colonists
Economic depression
Molasses Act- French
Westhttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topi
c/387927/Molasses-Act
 Sugar Tax (sugar, coffee, tea, wines, and other
goods substantially imported into the Americas)
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•boycotts failed until Stamp Act (printed materials, newspapers,
playing cards, legal documents) direct tax
•Representation (James Otis)/popular protest
•1761 Writs of Assistance
•Sons of Liberty
•Riots
•Boycott of British goods/stamps, smuggling
•Stamp Act repealed 1766
•Quartering Act
•Parliament passed the Declaratory Act, reaffirming its right to
bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever.
What was the Boston Massacre
Response to the Townshend Acts 1767
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4,000 troops sent
to colonies
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Boston-hotbed of
colonial protests
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1770
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Crispus Attucks
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Samuel Adams and
“The Massacre”/acts
repealed
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Funeral procession
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Boston Tea Party 1773
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Committees of Correspondence (Patrick Henry,
Thomas Jefferson, and Richard Henry Lee)
1773 Parliament granted legal monopoly on tea
shipment to America (East India Company)
150 masters and apprentices
“So much was dumped into the harbor that the
tea soon piled up in the waters and spilled back
into the decks, where it was shoveled back into
the water”
Led to more 'tea parties'
Patriots became more daring
Tories became more loyal
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Colonies RejectTaxation
Southern states don't
want to participate in
northern wars
Representation based
on colonial profit
British should be
responsible for
protection
President not elected
Crown Rejects-