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America. Europeans and their American Indian allies resumed fighting a mere six
years later in a new conflict: the French and Indian War (1754–1763), also known in
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Europe as the Seven Years’ War (because it started there two years later). Early in the
war, a young British officer from the colony of Virginia named George Washington led
troops against the French in the Ohio River valley.
Yet another in the series of imperial contests for North America, this war too
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had high costs in lives and treasure. Moreover, it intensified some colonists’ question-
ing of British colonial rule. Unlike King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, and King
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George’s War, the Seven Years’ War decisively changed the balance of power in North
America, setting the stage for outright conflict between British colonists and the British
government.

REVIEW

■ What were two of the common causes of Britain’s colonial wars between
1689 and 1754?
■ What were two common effects of those wars?

AP ® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically

Comparing Developments in Secondary Sources

ACTIVITY

In Module 2.2, you identified developments in a secondary source. Below are two
secondary sources about the origins of the Yamasee War (1715–1717). In two
sentences, identify the developments that led to the Yamasee War according to each
historian.
Then, review the Writing Historically exercise in Module 2.4. In one to two sen-
tences, write down one similarity between each historian’s description of the ori-
gins of the Yamasee War and one difference.

“During the first decade and a half of the 18th century, the hunting of
whitetail deer, the expansion of cattle and pig raising, the rapid development
of rice cultivation, and the elimination of Spanish mission Indians of Florida
and Georgia combined to exhaust the Yamasee’s trade resources. It was this
depletion which forced the Yamasee deeper into debt and eventually into a
position where war was the only alternative.”

Richard L. Haan, “The ‘Trade Do’s Not Flourish as Formerly’: The Ecological
Origins of the Yamassee War of 1715,” in Ethnohistory, vol. 28, no. 4,
pp. 341–358. Copyright 1981, the American Society for Ethnohistory.
All rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright
holder, and the Publisher. www.dukeupress.edu.
“[The Yamasee, among other indigenous people in the British American
south east,] formed a coherent zone of settlement along Carolina’s oldest
and most lucrative trade route, extending south and southwest from
Charles Town into central Georgia. . . . [T]hose [native] nations had fewer
options for European trade open to them than others. They had done much

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