2.5 - British and French Interactions with Native Americans

In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable. Using the excerpt, answer (a), (b), and (c).

Source 1

“Your petitioners beg leave humbly to inform your Majesty, that the lands, to the west of the [Appalachian] mountains, are extremely fertile, the climate very fine and healthy, and the waters of the Mississippi [River], and those of the Potomack [River in Virginia], are only separated by one small ridge of mountains. . . ; British goods may be carried at little expense, and afforded reasonably to the Indians in those parts, [if] the lands to the west of the said mountains were settled, and a fort erected in some proper place there. . . ; if your petitioners meet with that success they have the greatest reason to expect, it will . . . extend your Majesty’s empire in America; . . . and, in a short space of time very considerably increase your Majesty’s revenue. . . .” 

“Your petitioners, for these great and national ends and purposes . . . have entered into partnership, by the name of the Ohio company, to settle these [lands] to the west of the said mountains. . . . Your petitioners . . . most humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to encourage this their said undertaking, by giving instructions to your governor of Virginia to grant to your petitioners a tract . . . of 500,000 acres of land.”

John Hanbury, London merchant, and colonial Virginian investors, in a petition to King George II of Great Britain, delivered to the king’s ministers in 1748

Question 1

Short answer

Briefly identify ONE cause of the development depicted in the petition.

Question 2

Short answer

Briefly describe ONE argument made in the petition.

Question 3

Short answer

Briefly describe ONE similarity between the British-Native American relations described in the petition and French-Native American relations.

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