1. Magnificent Monday 9.25.17 Road to Revolution Pages 138-139
Who was the King of England when the Intolerable Acts were passed?
What war took place from ?

2. Answers…
King George III
The French & Indian War

3. Chapter 5: Road to Revolution Section 1: Trouble on the Frontier

4. French & Indian War French & Indians VS. British & Colonists
(Some Indians sided and fought with the British)

5. Claimed all the river tributaries of the Mississippi
French & Indian War
France
Claimed all the river tributaries of the Mississippi
French came in small bands, lived among the Indians, and had trading posts
FUR TRADE

7. French & Indian War Britain
Claimed the Easter seaboard (13 original colonies)
Over 1 million settlers lived in original colonies
British built towns/cities and took over land

8. French & Indian War
Here’s how it started… 1750s French start building forts to back up their claim to land between Lake Erie & Ohio River – known as the Ohio River Valley

9. French & Indian War
Problem! The Virginia Colony also claimed the Ohio River Valley. There can’t be 2 owners!

10. French & Indian War
The governor of Virginia sent soldiers to order the French to leave. 21-year-old George Washington was chosen to lead the soldiers Member of Virginia militia, civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army. Washington’s army wasn’t able to force out French.

11. French & Indian War
A year later, Washington was ordered to travel west and build a fort along the Ohio River. He got there too late, and the French were already building their own Fort – Duquesne (du KANE). However, Washington learned a party of French troops was looking for him & decided to intercept them. His troops (with aid from Indian allies attacked and defeated the French party. Washington then retreated and built a fort of his own – Fort Necessity. But a larger French army found it, and forced Washington to surrender – sending him and his men back to Virginia with a message that the French would “never give up the Ohio River Valley.”

12. Representatives from each colony
Albany Plan of Union
During the war, Benjamin Franklin proposed to unite the colonies under one government
Representatives from each colony
Could organize armies
Could collect taxes

13. America’s 1st Political Cartoon
Created by: Ben Franklin
What Event: The Albany Congress (Albany Plan of Union)
What it Meant: Colonists must join together to fight French/Indians, or suffer death
Symbolism: Snake in one piece = powerful adversary; severed snake = dying foe
Letters next to Snake’s body represent the Colonies
George & Delaware are missing
Georgia = defenseless frontier
Delaware shared a governor with
Pennsylvania, so considered to be
included with P.
America’s 1st Political Cartoon
Published in Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754

14. No colony wanted to give up their power to a central government!
Albany Plan of Union
FAILED!
No colony wanted to give up their power to a central government!

15. French & Indian War
Even though battles were fought starting in 1754, GB did not officially declare war until 1756 Britain sent troops and money to aid colonies in war. Very expensive war! Cost Britain a lot of $$$ Why did Britain care about the Ohio River Valley?

16. Treaty of Paris 1763
France lost the war and all their land in North America. Britain became the supreme world power.

18. Effects of the War ECONOMIC
Britain was in debt and needed to pay for the 10,000 troops stationed in the colonies to keep peace.
King and Parliament felt the Colonies should have to help pay
So, they imposed new taxes on the colonies.

19. Effects of the War POLITICAL
Britain wanted to govern the colonies and have more control.
So they imposed new laws and restrictions on the colonies.
The colonists felt they were losing their freedom.

20. Think about it…
Why do you think the Indians sided (in large part) with the French over the colonists?
Write your response on the notecard provided and we will discuss responses at the beginning of lesson tomorrow.