Thirteen Colonies, 1700-1750 | Britain, France & Spain | North American colonies | US history

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What were the thirteen British colonies?
What happened during colonial times?

North America, the future United States and Canada, had a critical era during the eighteenth century. The 1700s saw the maturation of the colonies in North America.

England and Scotland joined in 1707 through the Act of Union, meaning that Great Britain was a united nation. France came to build new colonies stretching from Acadia to Quebec to the Great Lakes to the Midwest and down the Mississippi River. New Orleans was established in 1718.

Spain controlled Florida, Texas, and New Mexico. Their missions and influence spread in the American Southwest.

During Queen Anne's War, Britain secured French Port Royal in Acadia which became Port Annapolis. Britain now held Nova Scotia in Canada, but France retained Cape Breton Island, within which they established Fortress Louisbourg.

The British colonies matured. James Oglethorpe established Savannah in Georgia in the 1730s. Benjamin Franklin was active in printing circles, working in newspaper publication. George Washington became a surveyor in Culpepper County, Virginia. A play called "Cato" by Joseph Addison featured a line invoking "liberty or death," and this was performed in Williamsburg, Virginia. The colonies bartered and traded timber, iron, wheat, tobacco, indigo, rice, and other materials in their growing economy. Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and William & Mary were universities.

France secured peaceful relations with many nations, establishing fur trade posts at Fort Miamis, Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinac or Mackinaw), Fort Toulouse, New Orleans, Fort Detroit, Fort Rouge, and others.

Britain established Halifax in Nova Scotia to counter French Louisbourg. King George's War was yet another conflict that sparked in Canada.

The War for Jenkins' Ear pitted Spanish Florida against South Carolina and Georgia, with battles happening at Fort Augustine and Fort Frederica.

The Great Awakening spread revival across the colonies. Preachers and ministers like Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and John Wesley brought Methodism and Presbyterianism along with an evangelical fervor to the colonies. Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Reformed churches, Mennonites, and other churches were also active in the colonies, though Puritanism was slowly fading out in New England.

This is a film by Jeffrey Meyer, historian and librarian.
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You forgot to mention the Geat Peace of 1701 signed in Montreal between France and 39 Indian nations. This ended the wars that had been raging for over 50 years, allowed the French to expand inside the American continent, act as an arbiter between the natives and made them join an alliance against the English colonies.

jean-louislalonde
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This is amazing!! As much as I’ve studied genealogy & history this is the first video to pull so much together in such a concise and easy to follow way 👏👏👏 thank you!

sashek
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I love these series on early North America. Keep up the good work!

hog
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One thing that’s fascinating is to see the leftovers of French-Spanish-Native interaction through loan words. In Choctaw, the word shapo (hat) comes from chapeaux. Katos (cat) comes from Spanish gato. And the French bayou comes from Choctaw bok (river)

mwright_boomer
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I love watching your videos as I develop my family tree. They paint the larger context and help drive my research. Your style, voice and clarity are much appreciated. Thank you once again. Merci avec tout mon coeur, de Montréal, Québec.

secondhandrose
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I’m impressed that you correctly distinguish between English and British, whereas so many other content makers use the terms English and British as though they mean the same thing. For example ‚Knowing Better’ refers to Jamestown as being founded by the British, and ‚Ravignon’ archaically refers to the English Crown when discussing a period after 1707. As a Scotsman the distinction is important to me.

ianyoung
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We are waiting for the next 1750 to 1800s and the Job

PauloFreireJr
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Keep producing awesome, easy to follow descriptions of history. Appreciate you helping us travel.

JohnJohnson-ycwv
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I really enjoyed this method of teaching. I was under the impression (From High School) that only British were in North America during this time frame. This has really opened my eyes.
I would love to see an entire series on the history of the world in this style. In school we only learn about a small segment of history at a time, without ever considering what is going on elsewhere.

EXARCWithGrandpop
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Historians always seems to forget the French settlements in what is now southern Illinois... Cahokia was settled in 1699 (and is still there)... and Kaskaskia was settled in 1703 and, in the 19th century, became the first capital of the state of Illinois... etc.
These "Pays des Illinois" settlements flourished, developing excess agricultural produce and lumber, which was then rafted down the river to support the newer settlement at New Orleans.

ElbowShouldersen
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Thanks Jeffrey the Librarian. I am very much enjoying your American history content and hope you will continue.

qrplife
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I have never seen such a concise video of North American colonization. Thanks.

philb
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At last a content maker who makes the distinction between English and British. Thank you.

desmondmurray
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I'm enjoying these very much, especially the international context and the detailed timeline. My own area and timeline of interest are coming about 50 years after this video's timeline, but you began to touch on it with Ft. Orleans. I'll be looking forward to new information as you are able to share it.

debb
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Love it! Just watched the video to 1700 last week .. so I didn’t have to wait long. Thank you thank you!

samuelculper
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As a retired educator this endeavor was very didactic and well presented congrats. Thank you!

almeggs
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cant wait for the 1750-1800 video!!!! these are great!

kidkique
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Glad I found this place. Well put together, and I learned allot. I play it back at 1.25 speed and its a good voice speed.

dobledore
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I’d really like to see a video in this style on the seven years war and how it extended from North America to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. This is fascinating. Keep up the good work.

chrisboyington
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Great video. I’m really learning that I don’t know too much about early American history

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