Road to Revolution BeginsThe French and Indian War

Conflict Begins Between England and it’s colonies• By 1750 the colonies were

growing rapidly due to:• Cheap land• Religious tolerance• Economic opportunity

• BUT most importantly, England had left the colonies alone to solve their own problems• Salutary Neglect

• With this growth, colonists hoped to move across the Appalachian Mountains and into the Ohio River Valley

France and England Claim the Ohio River Valley

• Both France and England claimed this area

• France wanted to control trade with the Indians

• Britain wanted to extend the colonies to gain more land

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War Begins and Spreads

• From 1754-1763 war raged throughout the colonies

• Benjamin Franklin tried uniting the colonies with the Albany Plan of Union• Purpose: to unify the colonies

in order to better govern themselves and defeat the French

• Rejected: Colonial legislatures did not want to give up control

The Treaty of Paris, 1763

Terms of the treaty:• Britain gains all land from the

Atlantic to the Mississippi River• France gives

Louisiana (area west of the Mississippi) to Spain for their help

Pontiac’s Rebellion

• Pontiac, an Ottawa Indian, wanted to stop the loss of Native land • The fighting between the colonists and

the Ottawa became known as Pontiac’s Rebellion

• British decided that the western land would be expensive to defend so they passed the Proclamation of 1763• Outlawed settlement west of the

Appalachian Mts., including the Ohio River Valley…land they had just won!

Proclamation of 1763

• This angered colonists who had just fought a war for that land• Moving west was the only option for

same farmers to get land• The British government was

angry also• Colonists refused to pay extra taxes

to defend the land against the Ottawa

• They started to ignore the colonists’ arguments

• Hostility helped fuel the Revolution…

Draw this on the back of your French & Indian War notes

Draw on the back of your notes: Cause and Effect

1. colonies were growing

rapidly

2. colonists hoped to move

across Appalachian

Mts.

France and England

claimed this area

French and Indian

War 3. The Treaty of Paris, 1763

2. Proclamation of 1763- colonists cannot settle west of App. Mts.

1. Pontiac’s Rebellion

A. Britain gains from the Atlantic

to the Mississippi

B. Spain gets Louisiana