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Help With the French and Indian War
I have not written a paper yet but I will later.
The reason why my paper is so short is because of the reason stated above.
I wanted just a simple membership to view a few documents because I have to write a DBQ on the French and Indian war and one of the documents was really helpful and now I have tow write this mini essay.
So I know that the French and Indian War started initially in 1754 and ended in 1763.
In my DBQ there are I believe 8-9 documents.
I am just not entirely sure of how to write a DBQ either, we were never taught because my teacher got in a train accident and was out the rest of the year.
Anyway I watched videos like Crash Course by John Green (If you do not know what this is youtube it I highly recommend it! He's really funny and is good at explaining this stuff. And there are cool graphics.)
I also went to education-portal (another great set of video clips with cute characters! ^___^) (Also watch) and that helped a little too but I am still unsure of how to actually begin this.
Random stuff from my textbook summarizing colonial life: Feel free to read but it probably sucks lol
Patterns of Existence:
-Many Americans came for the opportunity to live a better life in a better way.
-Four distinct patterns: “Southern Plantation, the New England town, Loose Collection of Individual farms, or the coastal city.”
The Plantation-
-Main crop exports: Indigo and rice; South Carolina Sugar; West Indies Tobacco; Virginia and Maryland
-Planter=Settler and Plantation=Settlement; but then eventually to the people on the plantation, meaning workers were slaves.
-Plantation slave work first developed in Virginia, and even though it was the most effective and productive way, it was unrewarding, violent, and oppressive labor.
-Many men scrambled for labor during the time of the Tobacco Boom (1620’s).
-These men [Indentured servants] would serve up to 7 years in exchange for a pre-paid passage over to the Americas.
-A few laborers from

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