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 Indians, especially the Five nations of the Iroquois, were exceptionally good at playing the French and the English against each other in order to maximize their own benefits. The French and Indian War was a guerrilla war of small skirmishes and surprise attacks.
Detailed explanation-4: -France saw Indigenous nations as allies, and relied on them for survival and fur trade wealth. Indigenous people traded for European goods, established military alliances and hostilities, intermarried, sometimes converted to Christianity, and participated politically in the governance of New France.