1. Seven Years’ War
French & Indian War
The Great War for Empire

2. Warm Up
What does this passage mean to you?
‘In a sense, the history of the United States began with the fall of Quebec and Montreal: the infant republic was cradled on the Plains of Abraham’

3. NA before King William’s & Queen Anne’s Wars

4. France vs Great Britain
King William’s War,1689 – 1713
France vs GB
part of a bigger conflict b/w France, GB & Spain for trading rights
British victory -1713
control of northern Canada,
Nova Scotia (Acadia) & Newfoundland
40 years later will cause the migration of Acadians ‘cajuns’ to French held Louisiana
Est. a 50 year period of salutary neglect by GB of its American colonies
GB will not need to enforce Navigation Acts

5. NA after the Treaty of Utrecht

6. What do these images have to do with the French & Indian War?

7. War of Jenkin’s Ear -King George’s War (1744-48)
Small part of the conflict in Europe known as the War of Austrian Succession
Spain attacked British merchant ship & tried to reneg on slave trade agreement w/Britain

8. French & Indian War,
Began in NA, but spread to Europe, Africa & the Philippines (Seven Years’ War)
British colonists wanted to expand into the Ohio Valley, but France needed to control this area to link Canada to the Mississippi Valley
1754 Albany Congress set up a plan of union to help defend the colonies against Indian/French attacks

9. Causes of F&I War
Iroquois end trade w/France & give trade concession to the British (1748-)
French build forts in the Ohio Valley
VA Gov. Dinwiddie sends militia (led by G. Washington) to challenge French presence
French attack Fort Necessity, Washington surrenders
GB declares war
Early battles at Ft. Duquesne (F&I win)
Quebec City (GB win)* ultimately leads to British victory in the Americas

11. Indian territories, 1754
Iroquois Confederacy –Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga (GB allies)
Huron, Algonquin (French Allies )

12. Effects of the F&I War Treaty of Paris (1763)
France gave control of lands east of the Mississippi & Canada to GB
Iroquois & other interior tribes lost the ability to play rival European nations off each other
Pontiac’s War –Ottawa chief led tribes against British settlers in Detroit, killing more than 2,000
British retaliated with inflicting smallpox on Indians
GB establishes the Proclamation Line
settlement west banned in order to work out potential conflicts w/ Indians west of the Appalachians

13. The War for Empire