THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR PGS IN TEXT ~ * Take out our Notes and open your text to page 85* ~
DON’T LET THE NAME FOOL YOU!
BACK GROUND INFORMATION: -Great Britain and France were 2 of the 4 European Powers -Much Competition in building a World Empire -French lands in Quebec -Expands but in much smaller numbers -Get along GREAT with ____________________. -GB lands in Jamestown, VA -Expands in GREAT numbers and want to STAY/ KEEP land -Expansion of the 2 Powers COLLIDE
THE SITUATION: French build a fort in the Ohio River Valley (Fort Duquesne) The British promise 200,000 acres to a group of wealthy planters….
GEORGE WASHINGTON Leads a MILITIA to Ohio to give a special delivery… GET OUT! What is a MILITIA? BATTLE at QUEBEC :
MAP: WHAT HAPPENS TO FRANCE’S POSSESSIONS 1763???
TREATY OF PARIS: What is it? GB claims all of North America EAST of the Mississippi River (Includes Florida) Spain is given all French land WEST of the Mississippi WHY???
NEW PROBLEMS The Native Americans see the French loss as their own… Why?? Because…. 1) They Liked 2) They Fear NA Fight BACK! British play nasty Create the Proclamation of 1763 Which bans British settlement WEST of the Appalachian Mts… Do you think it will work?