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- - - - British strengths
        
        Pitt
        
        sent 25,000 troops
        
        aggressive military appointments
        
        Amhurst, Wolfe, Clinton
        
        Militia Act 1757
        
        Paid frederick the great to occupy france.
        
        Navy
        
        Lord Anson 100 ships
        
        Battle of Quiberon Bay- battle of Quebec- enabled control of Ohio forks and suppliues for french at fort duquesne
      - French weaknesses
        
        relied on imports
        
        could only raise 4,600 troops
        
        lost support of the natives bcos didn;'t have supplues to offer them.
      - Role of Natives and militia
        
        militia
        
        45,000 troops, half of which were militia
        
        precedence
        
        unsuccessful bcos failed to take fort duquesne- largelt untrained
        
        £100,000 reimbursement from Pitt.
        
        helped build roads etc.
        
        Natives
        
        Battle of Fort William Henry 1757 during the Seven Years War- refused British commands and scalped 1,500 British soldiers.
  - - - Natives
        
        General braddock 1500 men scalped
        
        allied with the french, because they had control of the Ohio forks, which meant that the fur trade was in their hands.
        
        Wabonaki confederacy with the french
        
        Albany congress 54- failed, and middle states such as virginai made their own deals with tribes such as the iroquois.
      - French
        
        French military had a strong presnce in NA
        
        Treaty of Aix-la-chapelle- traded madras, evidenced that the british did not have primary inrterest in north american theatre, and therefore lack of willing- both through trade, with mercantilism, but also through territoiry. The briths were not willing to send/sacrifice troops from europe for Ameirca, and therefore thw stratus quo largely remained.
      - british weaknesses / systems (mercantilism)
        
        hat act- irrelevant commodity
        
        wool act- local supply rarely exceeded local demand.
        
        iron act- badly enforced and largely ignored
        
        the system failed to be installed, giving the americans quite signficant autonomy, and a lack of tac.x.
  - - - Changed due to end of salutary neglect and debt
        
        Debt
        
        130 million
        
        cost of colonial administration reached 200k
        
        cost of defense increased from 48k to 250k
        
        implementation of... Stamp Act 1764
        
        currency act 1762
        
        Writs of assistance
        
        led to upheaval and societal discontent.
        
        10,000 troops remained
      - lack of common enemy, american conscience
        
        proclamation line and Pontiacs rebellion
        
        french lack of common enemy
        
        militia emboldenment
      - No, remained positive
        
        1/3 british ships made in new England
        
        enjoyed parliamentaryt subsidies
        
        Pitt sent money
        
        payed 1/5th of the tax of the british.
        
        protection from militia
- - - - John Locke
      - Sam adams
      - Thomas Paine
      - James Otis
      - Adam Smith
    - - committees of correspondence
      - stamp act congress
      - first continental congress
        
        74
        
        Suffolk Resolves
        
        declared intolerable acts null and void
        
        right to bear arms
        
        every state apart from georgia
        
        called for economic non-importation
        
        declaration of rights and grievances 4th october 1774
        
        taxation problems
      - second continetnal congress
        
        the lee resolves
        
        Declaration of independence
        
        olive branch petition
    - - Boston tea Party 1773
        
        £10,000, 342 chests
      - Boston Massacre
      - 12/13 stamp distributors resigned- mock lycnhing of andrew oliver
      - Limitations?
        
        5% population urban
        
        limited support in southern colonies
  - - - quebec act
      - administration of justice act
      - quartering act
      - Boston port act