THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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The French forced them to fight because the Indians were enslaved by them.
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The British attacked the Indians first, and the French decided to help the Indians.
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The French and Indians cooperated with one another often; traded with one another and taught each other many techniques for survival.
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The French were fighting the Indians in the war ____ The Indians didn’t help the French at all.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tribes allied with the French hoped to keep British expansion at bay. The French had caused less strife than the British, who were bringing their wives and families to settle while French trappers were marrying Native women.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Delawares and Shawnees became France’s most important allies. Shawnees and Delawares, originally “dependents” of the Iroquois, had migrated from Pennsylvania to the upper Ohio Valley during the second quarter of the 18th century as did numerous Indian peoples from other areas.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.