1. Warm Up 9/27
Using the maps on your desks, complete “identify, analyze, and evaluate” on the back of the French and Indian War Chart I handed you on your way in.
We will discuss these shortly!

2. Before
French and Indian War
After
French and Indian War

3. “The Great War for Empire”
The French & Indian War
(1754 to 1763)
“The Great War for Empire”
By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

4. North America in 1750

5. North America in 1763

6. Causes Politics and Power: Migration and Settlement:
-Earlier conflicts between Britain and France in the colonies. (King Williams War, Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War)
Migration and Settlement:
-English colonists hungry for land pushed into the Ohio River Valley.
-George Washington sent to survey land fired the first shots.

7. 1754  The First Clash The Ohio Valley British French
Fort Necessity Fort Duquesne * George Washington * Delaware & Shawnee Indians

8. Causes Continued Economics:
-Competition for resources between French, English, and natives.

9. Effects Politics and Power:
-Proclamation of 1763 issued by the British.
->no migration beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
-Colonies united for the first time.

10. -> British “gifts” of smallpox- infected blankets from Fort Pitt.
Effects
Migration and Settlement:
-Colonists immediately defied the Proclamation of 1763 and begin settling west of the Appalachian mountains.
-> tensions mount with Britain
-Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763
-> natives overrun British forts
-> British “gifts” of smallpox- infected blankets from Fort Pitt.

11. The Aftermath: Tensions Along the Frontier
1763  Pontiac’s Rebellion
Fort Detroit

12. Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763)

13. “Taxation without representation”
Effects
Economics:
War greatly enlarged England’s debt.
English PM George Grenville responds with enforcement of the Navigation Acts, Sugar Act (1764), and the Stamp Act (1764).
“Taxation without representation”

14. On the back of your chart, write a thesis for the following prompt:
Explain the major effects of the French and Indian War on colonial America.
X = least important effect
A, B = most important effects
Y = the major effects of the French and Indian War were (political/economic/related to migration)

15. North America in 1763

16. Heading toward a revolution…