How did the outcome of the Seven Years' War change the relationship between Indian peoples and British colonists in various regions of North America?

Question

How did this altered relationship manifest itself in the laws, territorial lines, Indian-colonist conflicts, and settlement patterns during the decade after of the Seven Years' War?

Answer 1

Answer: An ideal response will:
1. State that the British victory in the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) was a complete disaster for the Indians living between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic.
2. Illustrate that with the French and Spanish out of eastern North America for the foreseeable future, the ability to engage in three-way political bargaining for territory among southern tribes such as Cherokees and Creeks had ended.
3. Discuss how the removal of the French from North America meant that tribes such as the Iroquois could no longer rely on an alliance with the British to maintain Iroquois power and influence in New York, the Great Lakes, and territories between the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers.
4. Discuss how the British governors of Virginia and Pennsylvania as well as British general Lord Jeffrey Amherst used their postwar politically advantageous position over Indian peoples to humiliate them and refrain from providing the Indians with needed supplies such as gunpowder to hunt deer.
5. Discuss how the Indians who sided with the French during the war found themselves in an even worse political and economic position, prompting such armed resistance as Pontiac's Rebellion and its relatively quick and bloody suppression by the British army.
6. Analyze the political, economic, and military reasons why the British attempt to use the Proclamation Line of 1763 to slow white settlement into western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and what would become Kentucky largely failed.
7. Discuss how the failure to slow white settlement into these western regions and Appalachian regions helped ignite an armed racial conflict between all whites and all Indians (e.g., the Paxton Boys killings) over the next decade that the British army was not able to stem.
8. Discuss how even successful efforts by leading citizens in colonies such as Pennsylvania to negotiate an end to individual conflicts between Indians and colonial whites could not eliminate the racial hatred and the emergence of other rebellions by whites and Indians.
9. Write a concise and effective conclusion.