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Additional Class Topics

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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America, 1608 - 1763

  • Compare the image of the typical early French colonizer (the fur-trading voyageur or Jesuit priest) with the image of the typical Spanish colonizer (the conquistador) or English colonizer (the Puritan or tobacco planter). Consider how these images reflect the nature of each nations colonial effort.

  • Approach several of the chapters issues from a Canadian viewpointespecially that of a French-Canadian. Point out how the survival and growth of the aggrieved French-Canadian community reflects the losing side of the struggle for North America and discuss whether English-speaking North Americans might have ended up in the same condition had France won the French and Indian War.

  • Focus on the Indian factor in the French empire and the French and Indian War. Examine French relations with the Indians compared with British (and perhaps Spanish), and consider why most Indians supported France against Britain.

  • What shaped the European alliances that formed during the eighteenth century? Why did France and Britain clash frequently? Why did France and Spain become allies a number of times? Why was Portugal no longer a major power in colonial affairs or the world?

  • Examine the Seven Years' War in Europe. Assess William Pitt's statement that, "America was conquered in Germany." How much did the battles and conflict in the Old World shape the fighting in the New World?

  • Use the activities of the young George Washington to illustrate the double role of the colonists as both British subjects and Americans. Discuss how Washingtons status as a colonial underling clashed with his status as a young Virginia aristocratand reflected all the colonists frustrations with their subordinate role.
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