THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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The French were interested in fur trade
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French trappers often married Native American women
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The French wanted Native American lands
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The French converted many Native Americans to Catholicism
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Detailed explanation-1: -The reason the Indians were involved in the French and Indian War was because the British were taking control over their land. They were upset that the Americans were listening to British orders and giving them less and less land to live on.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Native American people from the Algonquin, Lenape, Wyandot, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Shawnee, and the Mi’kmaq sided with the French. The British were supported by the Iroquois Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Algonquin-speaking people largely supported the French, including the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Mi’kmaq, the Abenakis, the Ojibwa, the Lenape, the Ottawa, and the Shawnee among many others.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the early 1700s, the fur trade was firmly established in the Great Lakes region. The French empire was based on the fur trade in this region and required Native American alliances to sustain it. Native people and the French traded, lived together, and often married each other and built families together.