1. Objective: To analyze the importance of the Albany Plan of Union and the causes and effects of the French and Indian War.
Do Now: Which European countries were competing for land in North America?
- Great Britain
- France
- Spain

3. Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union, proposed by Benjamin Franklin and Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson, called for colonial unity in the face of the coming war with France.

4. The Grand Council would:
The Albany Plan of Union called for a Grand Council with representatives from each colony.
The Grand Council would:
- make laws
- raise taxes
- defend the colonies
None of the colonies approved the plan out of fear of losing power.
* The Albany Plan of Union set an example that would later be followed by such gatherings as the First and Second Continental Congress.

5. French and Indian War (1754 – 1763)
Causes: Britain began to compete with France over the fur trade in the Ohio Valley.

6. French and Indian War: Alliances

7. French and Indian War: Alliances
Alliance - a formal agreement by two or more nations to act together in a cause
• France, Spain (1762), Algonquins, and Hurons
• Great Britain and the Iroquois
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8. The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West, 1770

9. Prior to the French and Indian War After the French and Indian War

10. French and Indian War: Effects
The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, ending the war.
The Treaty of Paris
• Britain gained Canada and all of the French land east of the Mississippi River.
• Spain gained all of the French land west of the Mississippi River.
• Spain gave up Florida to Britain.