1. The Cost of a Growing Empire

2. Mercantilism

3. Navigation Acts

4. Restrictions
Enumerated Goods
Staples Act
Bounties
Smuggling

5. Mercantilism
Triangular Trade

6. Mercantilism
Colonies produce and buy goods… how will England gain more profits?

7. The Ohio Company of Virginia
Potential Wealth
Fur trade
Speculation

9. Ohio Company (1748)
British approval
Forks in Ohio River

10. French & Indian Wars
1688–1697
King William's War 1st Intercolonial War (in Quebec)
War of the League of Augsburg (Nine Years' War)
Treaty of Ryswick (1697)
1702–1713
Queen Anne's War 2nd Intercolonial War
War of the Spanish Succession
Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
1744–1748
King George's War 3rd Intercolonial War
War of the Austrian Succession
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
1754–1763
The French and Indian War 4th Intercolonial War
Seven Years' War
Treaty of Paris (1763)

11. Alliances
French & Huron, Wabanaki Confederacy, Caughnawaga, Mohawk, Choctaw, Timucua, Apalachee, Natchez and Spanish (2nd French & Indian War)
English & Iroquois

12. Competition for Ohio Valley
Logstown – 1752
Tanacharison the Half-King
Competition leads to…

13. The French & Indian War
Seven Years War (1754–1763)
“War of Conquest”

14. George Washington

15. William Pitt

16. Robert Dinwiddie

17. General Edward Braddock

18. Major Battles Battle of Jumonville Glen Battle of Ft. Necessity
Siege of Ft. William Henry
Battle of Fort Duquesne
Battle of Ticonderoga (1758 & 59)
Siege of Louisbourg
Battle at Sainte-Foy/Quebec

19. Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin

20. Treaty of Paris (1763) Terms harsh to losing France.
French territory on mainland North America lost.
The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley.
New Orleans & the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi to Spain
British also gain Caribbean islands & India
Spain gain Philippines & Cuba

21. Pontiac’s War/Rebellion
1763 – Ft. Detroit
Siege of Ft. Pitt
Devil’s Hole Massacre
Indian Raids
Paxton Boys
July 25, 1766

22. Proclamation Line of 1763 Why create this barrier?
Why does this cause problems?