American Pageant 13E Chapter 6 Study Guide
Student Study Guide for the American Pageant CHAPTER 6 The Duel for North America, 1608?1763 seq NL1 \r 0 \h Chapter Summary ? Like Britain, France entered late into the American colonial scramble, eventually developing an extensive though thinly settled empire economically based on the fur trade. During much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain and France engaged in a bitter power struggle that frequently erupted into worldwide wars. In North America these wars constituted an extended military duel for imperial control of the continent.