Bell Work  Get in your groups from Tuesday’s class and continue exchanging notes over the sections.  If you were absent come see me. This Day in History: September 26, Sir Francis Drake becomes the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. September 26, The Allies launch the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the last of WWI. September 26, The first televised presidential debate airs between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

British-French Rivalry  By the 1700s the British and French were competing for power in North America, particularly in the Ohio River Valley.  In 1754, the governor of Virginia sent a militia lead by George Washington to seize a French fort in western Pennsylvania.  Washington was forced to surrender and this became the start of the French and Indian War.

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Native American Allies  Natives typically distrusted the British because of their hunger for land.  Most Indians sided with the French because the French were just interested in the fur trade.  The British tried to form an alliance with the Iroquois Confederacy to no avail. The Iroquois did promise to remain neutral.

The Albany Plan  In 1754 Ben Franklin proposed a plan to unify all of the 13 colonies under a centralized government. It was a failure, but it would later influence the Founding Fathers.

British Defeat the French  While the French enjoyed early victories, the British took over the war in 1757 when William Pitt became prime minister.  Pitt sent better trained troops to North America and promised to pay for the costs of the war with the intention of raising taxes following it.

Treaty of Paris, 1763  Ended the war  Britain received French Canada as well as France’s land east of the Mississippi River.  Britain received Florida from France’s ally Spain.  Spain acquired French lands west of the Mississippi River called Louisiana, as well as the port of New Orleans.

Post War  The loss was a blow to Native Americans because the British began taking their land and raising the prices of their goods.  Chief Pontiac who lived near Detroit lead a war on the colonists beginning in  The Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlers from crossing the Appalachian Mountains to settle. They stationed 10,000 troops in North America to enforce this law.  The war hurt the British financially so they made plans to raise taxes.

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