US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions

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* all of these wars were largely result of '''American colonial expansion''', including:

** rising population

* European political and religious dynamics deeply influenced British and French colonial interactions

** as well as among and between the British colonies

| 1675–1678  

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** war conducted without British involvement or support

** created distinct identify and sense of independence from Britain  

| 1688–1697

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* War of the Grand Alliance

* resulted in no changes in British of French colonial territories

* Wabanaki Confederacy" held off colonial American attempts to expand into southern Main

| 1702–1713

|| War of the Spanish Succession

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* outcome:  

** British take Acadia, Newfoundland, Hudson Bay, and Saint Kitts

| 1722–1725  

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* series of conflicts between New England colonials and Wabanaki Confederacy

* outcome was that New England colonials took over most of Acadia (Maine)  

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* a Spanish commander sliced the ear of a British merchant captain

*** Spanish forces retaliated in 1742 with an attack upon the Georgia coast, which was repelled

** the conflict did not involve the French, but did morph into the larger European conflict in the War of the Austrian Succession

| 1744–1748

|| War of the Austrian Succession

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* conclusion of the war changed no boundaries and did not settle tensions

** may be considered as contributor to French-Indian War of 1754

| 1754–1763

|| Seven Years' War

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