12/6 Do Now: Period 2 :& 4: Open up your textbook to page 104 and read through page 107 Periods 5,8- Take out your maps from yesterday Period 9- Take out your maps from yesterday and also take out the questions in your notebooks

Open your textbooks and begin reading pages 104-107 Open your textbooks and begin reading pages 104-107. While reading, answer the following questions in your notebooks: What is the name of the piece of land that both the French and British want? What advantage did the French have over the British? Who were the most powerful group of Native Americans? Who do the Iroquois eventually ally with? Who does Governor Dinwiddie send into the Ohio Country? What is Washington’s mission when he is sent back to the Ohio Country in 1754? What does he find when he gets there? What was the Albany Plan of Union and what was it’s result?

Today in History December 6   1884 - Construction of the Washington Monument was completed. 1923 - A presidential address was broadcast on the radio for the first time when Calvin Coolidge spoke before Congress. 1998 - Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela.

Today’s Topic: France and Britain Clash Objectives: List which tribes side with the French and the British Infer why these tribes would side with these European nations

What lands are claimed by the English? Color the lands claimed by the French green. Color the lands claimed by the English yellow. Color the lands claimed by the Spanish blue. What lands are claimed by the English? What lands are claimed by the French? What lands are claimed by the Spanish?

Most English settlers who lived along the Atlantic coast were happy living there and had no need for more land. By 1740, the fur trade was bringing in lots of money and English traders from New York and Pennsylvania began crossing the Appalachian Mountains into the Ohio Valley. They wanted to take over the French fur trade with the Indians.