French and Indian War

Historical causation of a loaded gun (metaphor)

You have a gun, it is a unified piece of equipment that requires outside control and power to make it work. If there isn't a round in the chamber nothing will happen. If it is going to be an effective tool, it has to be loaded, cracked, aimed, and triggered. This is how historical causation works. Think of important events as a loaded gun. 

This is the case with the beginning of the French and Indian War. Someone pulled the trigger...that's the King. The person who pulled the trigger was George Washington-literally! The world changed. 

You want to see Democracy in action? The settlement of N. Am was a movement of the people that settled the land. Consequences: war with the Indians, 

Fertile land that was essentially empty and free or at least cheap. 

When the British came and settled the coast the tribes had recently been decimated. 

The word got out that there was land. Land was the basis of the wealth of all European society. Land=freedom TheFrench could have come to the British colonies but they didn't. The land was filled in from1800-1900. The Ohio Valley had the initial value. That is what the French were willing to defend, the Iroquois were willing to defend, and the Colonists wanted to defend. 

• 3 long wars 1689-1748 that preceded the French and Indian War 
• National Debt kept rising 
• neither side can profit from the war 

When did the modern world begin? Everything that preceded Jumonville was different.  May 28, 1754 Jumonville Glen where George Washington led an experiment

Western Pennsylvania and 15 minutes later 

Washington 22 years old. He wants fame, he is always looking to raise his position. A half king indian leader lures Washington into a battle with false information. Washington surrenders at Fort Necessity. He signs a treaty which was written in French and Washington didn't know what he was signing. it said that Washington massacred the french. This caused a world war. 

Results-

• Britains debt doubles. 
• They had to meet the interest payment on the debt. How could they do it? Taxing the colonies after the war. 
• Britain gains land in Canada and Louisiana. New France holdings 
• Cajun culture 
• the king fears the indians. He doesn't want to battle so he passes the Proclamation line of 1763. This upset the colonists who were not going to stop moving. They had nothing to lose so they went over the line. Crossing the Rubicon! 

No way to stop westward expansion. Increased population, cheap land, relatively few indians defending the land. The king of Britain could not station troops to keep colonists from moving west. 

Proclamation Line 1763

The dominoes began to fall. 

1. Battle of Jumonville Glen (May 28, 1754)
2. Seven Years' War (1755-1763), a world war
3. Parliamentary taxation of the colonies (1764-1773)
4. American Revolution (1775-83)
5. U.S. Constitution (1788)
6. French Revolution (1789-94)
7. Napoleonic wars (1797-1815)
8. Nationalism in response to Napoleon 
9. End of Europe's old order (1815-30)
10. Communist secret societies (post-Babeuf)
11. Communism: (Marx-Engels) (1848)
12. European Revolutions of 1848
13. U.S. Civil War (1861-65)
14. World War I (1914-18)
15. Two Russian Revolutions (1917)
16. National Socialism (1922-45)
17. World War II (1939-45)
18. Atomic bomb (1945)
19. Cold War (1946-1991)
20. State of Israel (1948)
21. Islamic revolutionary movements