How did the outcome of the Seven Years’ War affect Native Americans?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. In the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War, native peoples of the backcountry sought ways to resist further white settlement.
2. Inspired by Neolin, Pontiac coordinated an uprising among the western Indians.
3. Pontiac was defeated but not before he and his followers killed thousands of colonists.
4. For the Native Americans who inhabited the Ohio Valley, this was a period of almost unmitigated disaster.
5. With the French gone, the British felt little obligation to their former Indian allies.
6. Pontiac’s rising unloosed vicious racism along the colonial frontier.
7. American colonists were determined to settle the fertile region west of the Appalachian
Mountains, regardless of what this meant for the Indians who lived there.
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