E. Pitt Takes Charge Pitt came to power as Prime Minister in London. He appointed skilled commanders. To avoid dealing with constant arguments between England and the colonists over costs, Pitt said England would pay for all supplies and ran up a HUGE DEBT! (After the war, the British raise American taxes)

2. Pitt wanted more than the Ohio Valley, he also wanted to conquer French Canada. a. Generals Jeffrey Amherst and James Wolfe captured Louisbourg on Nova Scotia.

b. Another force attacks and captures Fort Duquesne and renamed it Fort Pitt. Gave the British control of the Ohio Valley.

IV. The Fall of New France The capital of new France was Quebec, it sat perched high on cliffs, and was thought to be impossible to attack. 1. However, General James Wolfe found a way.

2. The British troops assembled outside the fortress Quebec on a field called the Plains of Abraham. 3. James Wolfe and the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm were both killed.

B. The fall of Quebec and General Amherst’s capture of Montreal brought the fighting in North America to an end.

C. The Treaty of Paris 1763 Treaty - formal agreement between two countries. Forced France to give England Canada and most of its territories east of the Mississippi River 3. Great Britain gained Florida from Spain.

4. THIS TREATY MARKED THE END OF FRENCH POWER IN NORTH AMERICA The continent was now divided in two: the Mississippi River divided Britain’s land from Spain’s land. However, Native Americans still lived on this land.

V. Trouble on the Frontier 3. In 1763, Pontiac and his forces attack Fort Detroit and other British forts. Series of raids was called Pontiac’s War Pontiac was finally defeated in 1766. Pontiac’s War Chief Pontiac, of the Ottawa tribe, recognized the British settlers as a threat. Just as Ben Franklin wanted to unite the colonies with the Albany Plan, Pontiac wanted to unite Native Americans to fight against the British.

VI. The Proclamation of 1763 To prevent more fighting, Britain called a halt to settlers westward expansion. King George III declared the Appalachian Mountains were the temporary western boundaries for the colonies.

C. Angered many colonists and they moved across anyway. D. Created friction between the colonists and British.