1. Trouble in the Colonies: French and Indian War!
8th Grade
Part 1

2. The Last of the Mohicans:

3. Conflicts with France: 8.19
Between 1689 and 1763,Britain and France fought four wars. Three of these took place mainly in Europe. (World Wars!)

4. Militia: 8.19
An army made up of civilians serving temporarily as soldiers.

5. Casualties: 8.19
People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war.

6. (1754) French and Indian War: 8.19
Brittan and the colonies wanted the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, but the French claimed these land. War erupted and after early defeats, the British and colonial forces won. (Seven Years‘ War!!)

7. Treaty of Paris: 8.19
This treaty officially ended the French and Indian War. The treaty stated that the war “had spread trouble to the four parts of the world”.

8. Pontiac’s Rebellion: 8.22
Unsuccessful effort by Chief Pontiac and his allies to drive out British settlers on the frontier.

9. The Great Awakening: 8.11
 was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.

10. Salutary Neglect: 8.16
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the unofficial, long-term seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.

11. Proclamation of 1763: 8.22
British proclamation banning colonial settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. It was ignored.

12. Daniel Boone: 8.20
He was a trailblazer and pioneer who was the first English explorer to cross the Appalachian Mountains into what is now Kentucky and Tennessee. He found the Cumberland Gap and built the Wilderness Road.

13. Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett??

14. Daniel Boone!

15. French and Indian War Video:

16. Work:
8.20 & 8.21: Write an Essay explaining the events that created interest in the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and Watauga Settlement: long hunters, Wilderness Road, James Robertson, Little Carpenter, and Dragging Canoe.

17. THE END!