1. The French and Indian War
Plot Outline Summary

2. Exposition Situation When: 1740’s – 1760’s Where: North America
England and France were competing to be the most powerful nation in Europe. This soon expanded into North America. They both wanted control of this “new” continent.
Setting
Situation

3. Main Characters Section 3: French Fur Traders……………French
British Fur Traders…………….British
New Englanders………………..Colonists
Abenaki People………………..Indians
Iroquois Confederacy…………Indians
Gov. Robert Dinwiddle………..British/Colonists
George Washington…………..Colonists

4. Main Characters Section 4: General Edward Braddock……..British
William Pitt………………………..British
Jeffery Amberst………………….Colonists
James Wolfe………………………Colonists
Marquis de Montcalm…………….French

5. Conflicts
Section 3:
Britain and French competing for wealth for centuries
British colonists and French settlers fight in the Ohio River Valley
New Englanders capture French Fortress at Louisbourg
Abenaki people and the French attack the British at Deerfield, Mass.
Washington and a militia fight with the French for Fort Necessity

6. Conflicts
Section 4
Braddock’s troops were ambushed by Native American warriors and French troops.
Native Americans raid Frontier farms in New York to Pennsylvania
Amherst and Wolfe recapture the fortress of Louisbourg
British forces take Fort Duquesne (Fort Pitt)
The British take the capital of New France, Quebec

7. Complications Section 3:
The League of the Iroquois made an alliance with the British

8. Complications
Section 4:
Braddock is killed

9. Climax
The capture of Quebec !!!!

10. Resolution The Treaty of Paris 1763:
France had to give up Canada & its land east of the Mississippi River
Spain gave Florida to G.Britain and in exchange, G.Britain gave Spain the Louisiana Territory
* This war marked the end of France being a power in North America. Now only the British and the Spanish were left to compete.