Gotitright The Road To Glory Summary

As Sir Washington was heading back from delivering the message, he saw a point of land at an intersection of Allegheny and the Monongahela form the Ohio, where he thought would be a brilliant idea to build a fort. Dinwiddie agreed to his suggestion therefore building Fort Prince George, but ended with the French coming and taking over changing the name to Fort Duquesne. Washington ended up moving to the Great Meadows where he and his troops decided in building a fort that would be called, Fort Necessity. Three days within encampment, Washington and 40 men went looking for a group of French that were seen about seven miles away from Chestnut Ridge. When finding the French they were made prisoners, killed the commander Joseph Coulon de Villiers, and several others were killed as well, especially since it was a surprise attack they surrendered. George Washington won that encounter but the French weren’t about to give up yet. Not to long after, French troops were sent out from Fort Duquesne and defeated the British which left the French in charge of the west Allegheny Mountains. In 1755, General Edward Braddock came from Britain to America as commander in chief I order to help Britain gain Fort Duquesne back. Again the British had failed, loosing men as well as General Braddock who passed away four days after the

a) After the French and Indian War, the London government issued its Proclamation of 1763 and it flatly prohibited settlement in the area beyond the Appalachians. The Proclamation of 1763 established a line in the Appalachian Mountain range that separated the British settlers from the Ohio River valley and this Proclamation said that British settlers could not take up residence west of this line.

The Proclamation of 1763 was a law that put a boundary between the west and the east side of the appalachian mountains. After the French and Indian war, we were excited to expand westward, but King George had a decided he would create the proclamation instead. England says they did this to keep the Indians calm, but they were

After the war, Great Britain enacted the Proclamation Line of '63 saying that no one could go past the imaginary line west, towards the Appalachian Mountains because they wanted to keep the colonists out of conflict, so as not to have another war that had to be paid for through taxes. In reality, Britain didn't want the colonists to expand west because there would be less control over the colonies, but the colonists wanted to escape the grasp of

Before the 19th century, the United States was a small, developing country. Later, it transformed into a world power. The size of the United States was tripled because of acquisitions such as The Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican Cession with adding Alaska, Florida, Oregon, and Texas. One of the events that caused this expansion was the War of 1812. This war is sometimes called “America’s second war for independence”.

Right before the Stamp Act, the Indian Chief Pontiac attacked the colonist trying to drive them from the land for the last time. The rebellion resulted in Britain passing the Proclamation of 1763 after realizing they did not have the means to protect the vast amount of land they had acquired. The Proclamation stated that no one could settle past the Appalachian Mountains. This law angered the colonist because they believed that the land was rightfully theirs.

One of the first policies that the British government set into place in the American colonies was the Proclamation of 1763. The proclamation ordered that “no settlers were to cross the Appalachian divide” (100). One of the major issues that the colonists faced were conflicts with the local

Britain began to be very over populated, which means the british wanted to expand and move into the Ohio Valley area right along the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River. In order for the French to keep Canada connected with the lower part of the Mississippi as well as the Caribbean the French needed to keep that land. Nobody looked at whose land this really was,

The Spanish-American and the Mexican war were the only international wars that were fought in the 19th century. The wars were in favor of land expansion; therefore, the worries in the 19th century were manifested on slavery, destiny, the economy and the government. The geographic advantages of America gave them an edge over the other countries as they had large ocean buffers and the military in the western Hemisphere was weak.

The British announced this when they realized they wouldn’t be able to administer people if they lived that far out as well as they would be able to if they lived only in the 13 colonies. The British government saw the colonists settled to the west of the mountains as an issue. A solution to the so called issue of colonists interested in settling past the Appalachian Mountains was, “The ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763 was issued, which declared the boundaries of settlement for inhabitants of the 13 colonies to be Appalachia.” This means that people under British rule could live in the colonies and near the Appalachians on the eastern side but not to the west of the mountains. This proclamation angered many colonists and increased tensions and contributed to reasons of war declaration. The British only announced this because they felt that their administrative powers over the North American colonies were thinning and losing effectiveness. “But what seemed simple to the British was not acceptable to their colonial subjects. This remedy

“In 1749, captain Pierre-Joseph Celeron de Plainville set out from Montreal and proceeded to the shores of the Allegheny and Ohio River demanding that the British traders lower their flags from their trading post and retreat to the eastern slopes of the Appalachians” (Schwartz,6). This would lead to even more issues as a year continued. When the burden was far too great to overcome the two sides met in Paris. This lead to nowhere and the stressful relationship over control of Northern America agin grew even greater. On July 1,

After the war, resentments between the colonists and the Native Americans greatly increased, since it was they the British had fought against. To appease the Native Americans and keep them from attacking the colonists once more after the end of the war, the British created a boundary between Indian land and the colonies that was marked by the Appalachian Mountains. This marked a change in geography due to the French and Indian War; however, this new law, labelled the Proclamation of 1763, made many colonists angry. They believed they had a right to the land in the west, and thus largely ignored the proclamation. This once again marked a shift in attitude that the Americans held towards the

“The United States had emerged as a modern capitalist nation, and the spirit of nationalism in the country was strong and growing” (Henderson 71). As tensions grew between the Unites States and Mexico, there was a thirst for war. The Unites States declared war with Mexico, because they owned land that Americans desired, resulting in America’s fulfillment of achieving their philosophy of “Manifest Destiny”. The blood boil of both countries caused a lot of bloodshed. The dispute lasted for a long two year battle which was for huge amounts of land. The Americans were victorious and claimed new territories from the conflict.

The Spanish-American war consisted of a series of influential battles that pitted America and many of Spain’s colonies against Spanish rule, and ended with Spain losing its colonies and America gaining control over more and more land. In 1898, America joined a war being pit against Spain to force the Spanish to relinquish all control of their colonies, including Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. This same war ended only a few months later, with Spain suffering huge losses and America gaining money and territories. The Spanish American war could be split into three main points of interest: How and why the Spanish American war started, The battles of Manila, Santiago de Cuba, Asomante, and Las Guasimas ( And the Rough Riders) , and the aftermath of the war. One of the most interesting territories was Cuba. Although the Spanish american war was not a long and costly war, it changed many people's lives indefinitely.

To show the Indians their gratitude the British decided to show them their gratitude in the form of a royal proclamation. By making the Appalachians off limits too white settlers the natives received hunting ground. For the Indians this deal was great, after years of being persecuted and subjugated they finally get something in return. Now for the land hungry settlers this was devastating, they saw it as a travesty seeing as how this was passed right after the French war. This is because once the French were gone lands to the south west of the colonies were open for business, but then parliament stepped in.