“England and France compete in North America”

 The war was the product of a clash between the French and English over colonial territory and wealth.  In the 1740s, both England and France traded for furs with the Native Americans in the Ohio River Valley.  By the 1750s, English colonists hoped to convert the wilderness into good farmland.  Each side tried to keep the other out of the Ohio River Valley.

 The “French and Indian War” began when George Washington and his men headed into the Ohio region to demand that French troops leave the territory.  The demand was rejected by the French.  The British and the colonists fought against the French and the Indians

 The tide turned for the British in 1758, as they began to make peace with important Indian allies.  The French were also abandoned by many of their Indian allies.  Exhausted by years of battle, outnumbered and outgunned by the British, the French surrendered.

 By September 1760, the British controlled all of the North American frontier; the war between the two countries was virtually over Treaty of Paris  Under the 1763 Treaty of Paris, France was forced to surrender all of her American possessions to the British.

gained massive amounts of land 1) England gained massive amounts of land and vastly strengthened its hold on the continent. 2) The war seemed to strengthen England's hold on the colonies. played a major role in the worsening relationship between England and its colonies 3) The effects of the “French and Indian War” played a major role in the worsening relationship between England and its colonies that eventually led to the Revolutionary War.

 No battles were fought on South Carolina soil, but the French and Indian War still impacted the colony. Cherokee declared war against the colonists (The Cherokee War).  The French convinced the Cherokee (originally British allies), that the British wanted Cherokee land, so the Cherokee declared war against the colonists (The Cherokee War).  Since England claimed Florida after the war, the indigo trade from South Carolina to the Caribbean was made easier.

 The British taxed the American Colonists to pay for the war  “No Taxation Without Representation”