Section outline

  • • Competition for the fur trade led to a war between France and Britain.

    • France lost the war. As a result Britain took control of the Great Lakes region including Michigan.

    • American Indians found it was much harder to deal with the British than the French.

    • Serious conflicts began between the British and the American Indians.

    • British colonies along the Atlantic Ocean fought and won a war for Independence. 

    • After that war, Michigan became part of the new country called the United States of America.