Taking Sides Video Directions: Take notes as you watch the video “Taking Sides: Conflict in North America and the Iroquois.” Provide specific examples from the video to back up your answers.
1. What common purpose caused the Iroquois to side with the British in the French and Indian War?
2. Did the Iroquois profit from this allegiance? Why or why not?
3. What conflict did the Iroquois nations face when the American Revolution began? 4. How did the Iroquois fare in the war and afterward?
5. How do these 18th-century wars in North America show that allegiances can create both advantages and conflicts?

The Native American response from the article United States

The impact of Indian involvement in the affairs of the colonists was especially evident in the Franco-British struggle over Canada. For furs the French had ...

Louis De Buade, Comte De Palluau Et De Frontenac (French colonial governor)

While these conflicts were raging within the colony, a much more serious external problem was developing. Until 1675 the Five Nations of the Iroquois Indian ...

The Iroquoians of Huronia from the article Native American

The international conflict was most prolonged in North America, where it became known as the French and Indian War (1754-63). There it pitted the English, ...

Iroquois Confederacy (American Indian confederation)

For a century and a quarter before the American Revolution, the Iroquois stood athwart the path from Albany to the Great Lakes, keeping the route ...

Cherokee (people)

The Spanish, French, and English all attempted to colonize parts of the Southeast, including Cherokee territory. By the early 18th century the tribe had chosen ...

Battle Of Carillon (American history [1758])

After losing several battles in 1757, and in retaliation in particular for the massacre of British colonists by Frances American Indian allies at Fort William ...

On This Day - November 11

During the American Revolution, Iroquois, in direct retaliation for colonial assaults on two Indian villages, attacked a New York frontier settlement in the Cherry Valley ...

The War of 1812 from the article Canada

The War of 1812 can largely be traced to the Anglo-U.S. rivalry in the fur trade. British traders and soldiers had supplied Indian tribes and ...

History from the article Detroit

In the early 18th century Detroit became an important fur-trading post. In 1760, during the French and Indian War, it was surrendered to the British. ...

Proclamation Of 1763 (British history)

Proclamation of 1763, proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, mainly intended to conciliate ...

Explanation:

lying without the limits of the several states; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it