TWO QUESTION “QUIZ”ANSWER ON YOUR HOMEWORK SHEET AS I CHECK

YOUR HOMEWORK

1. USE YOUR HOMEWORK TO WRITE

ONE WORD WHICH CAUSED THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.

2. USE YOUR HOMEWORK TO WRITE

ONE WORD WHICH EXPLAINS THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULT OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.

French and Indian War

#1 - France •Mississippi River•St. Lawrence River•West of Appalachian Mtns•East of Rocky Mtns•80,000 settlers

HUGE TERRITORY

French – good

relations w/ Native

Americans

#1 - England •13 Colonies•East of Appalachian Mtns•1,000,000 colonists

•English – Mostly POOR relations w/ Native Americans•Kicked off land…

#2 - French Fur Trading Posts in North America

TRADE GOODS•GUNS•AMMUNITION•IRON•CLOTH

Good relations w/ Native Americans…

F&I War begins over the Fur Trade in the Ohio River Valley

#3 – French built forts to keep the English out – cutting into their trade w/ Native Americans

Fort Duquesne – (Pittsburgh)

#4 – Who fought against whom?

French

• French colonists (80,000)• French Army (from

France)• Native Americans –

Huron and Algonquin

English

• English Colonists (1,000,000)

• English Army (from England)

• Native American - Iroquios (upstate NY)

French and Indians versus English and IndiansWhy is it called the French and Indian war?

Well, who wrote the history? Who won?

Colonel George Washington in the British Army – F & I War

#5 - Fort Necessity (built by George Washington and his troops – nice fort…)

7 Years War

• Washington’s actions begin a larger warfought between Great Britain and France

– North America (called the French and Indian War)

– Europe– India– Africa– Phillippines

• First World War?

#6 - Albany Plan of Union

Ben Franklin’s Idea

•Plan to unite the colonies to defend against the French

•Raise armies•Collect taxes, etc

•DEFEATED

#7 – Braddock’s defeat•British General sent to capture Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)•Didn’t listen to G. Washington•Surprised by French and N. Americans•Killed

First of many

defeats for the British

#8 -William Pitt – British Secretary of State

Changes the war for the British!

•Sends the best men and supplies (borrows a LOT of $$$$$)

The message to the French – ‘No more messing around, we’re going to win this war (at any cost)!’

Fort Duquesne PITT

Fort Pitt leads to - Pittsburgh

#9 - Battle of Quebec – The Turning Point of the war for the British

British Controlled

theSt Lawrence

River.

Why was this so

important to helping the British win the war?

#10 - Treaty of ParisBEFORE AFTER

French are OUT of N.America – except for Haiti (1/2 of an island…)

After the War, Colonists

move West

•Land

•$

•Power

That’s good, isn’t it???

Pontiac’s Rebellion (against the British)

British have a different relationship with the Native Americans west of the Appalachian Mts…

#11 - Pontiac’s Rebellion

Native Americans attack British forts

and English settlers

#12 – Brutal Plan

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE – 1700s Style

If British citizens don’t go west of the Appalachian Mtns – British gov’t won’t have to protect them there – SAVES MONEY!!!

#13 - Proclamation

of 1763Remember – what do people “get” from their government?

•Rights•Protection – hmmm

•Think Pontiac’s Rebellion…

No British Citizens can settle WEST of the Appalachian

Mountains

#14 - British win the war – but go into a huge DEBT from the war.

132,000,000 Pounds!!!!!! (Pounds ~ Dollars)

Now that’s a lot of

dough!!!!

Who is going to pay

back this debt?