What does this puzzle have to do with the French and Indian War?

What was the conflict in the Americas?

What started the French and Indian War in North America?

• Ohio River Valley • Lake Erie • Virginia Company • George Washington• Virginia militia • Allegheny River• Monongahela River• Ohio River • Fort Duquesne • Fort Necessity • General Braddock

The Albany Congress and Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union (New York)

• England wanted the colonies to agree to a plan for common defense

• The Iroquois were also invited in hopes of an alliance

• Benjamin Franklin suggested that colonial assemblies elect council members to organize armies, collect taxes, negotiate with native Americans, and make decisions regarding western settlements

• The Congress adopted the plan, but the colonial assemblies did not; they felt it gave too much control to a central power

• Benjamin Franklin called them “weak noodles”

How did England win the war? • 1755: Fort Duquesne

disaster, Fort Niagara disaster, Lake George disaster

• 1756: Fort Oswego disaster, Fort William Henry disaster

• The Iroquois refuse to ally with the British because they are losing

• 1757: William Pitt becomes prime minister and appoints James Wolfe as commander

• 1758: Britain starts winning battles, including Fort Duquesne, which they rename Fort __ __ __ __

• The Iroquois are now willing to ally with the British

• 1759: Britain takes Quebec• 1760: Britain takes Montreal • 1763: Britain and France

sign the Treaty of Paris • France CEDED Canada to

Britain; other territories changed hands

How did the French and Indian War lead to conflicts with the native Americans?

• England now controlled all territory east of the Mississippi River

• The colonists wanted to settle this area (west of the Appalachian Mountains), which was all land occupied by the native Americans

• Pontiac’s War was an attempt by the Ottawa nation to push out the British settlers

• Time for CRASH COURSE?

• The Proclamation of 1763 banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

TAXES, TAXES, and more TAXES

Will it be the most exciting lecture ever created for this class?

Stay tuned, and read your textbook!