1. The Duel for North America 1608-1763
Chapter 6
The Duel for North America

2. France in New World
Problems in France= started colonization later (Huguenots)
Samuel de Champlain and Quebec
Allied with Hurons (enemies of Iroquois)
New France= royal colony
Slow growing

4. New France Focus on beaver trapping Recruit Indians into trade
Alcohol, disease and weakened religion
Expanded north, west and south
Empire makers: Antoine Cadillac and Robert La Salle

6. George Washington Ohio Valley= desired by French and British
Virginian claim vs. French fort system (Duquesne)
George Washington 1754 Fort Necessity
Deportation of Acadians in Nova Scotia (coming war)

7. Colonial Disunity Albany Congress 1754 Maintain Iroquois alliance
Ben Franklin= colonial home rule

8. Famous Cartoon by Benjamin Franklin. Delaware and Georgia were omitted.

9. General Braddock
General Braddock (Great Britain) tried to capture Fort Duquesne 1755
Used to European warfare, not guerilla
Braddock killed, Indians extend warpath

10. William Pitt William Pitt took over war effort (Great Commoner)
Focus on Quebec/Montreal
Quebec captured 1759, Montreal 1760
Spain got Mississippi and Louisiana
GB got Florida
Treaty of Paris
GB= dominant world power

11. View of the Taking of Québec, On the night of September 13, British forces scaled the rocky cliffs of Québec and defeated the French army defending the city. The following year, Montréal, France’s last bastion in North America, surrendered. Fighting continued in the Caribbean, Europe, and the Philippines for two more years, until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, eliminating France as a colonial power in North America.

13. Results of French & Indian War
Victory= military confidence, experience and officers
Arrogant British professionals vs. colonial amateurs
American shippers traded with enemy
Inroads made to fix colonial disunity

14. American Destiny
Removal of French= sense of independence, new Indian policies
Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763
Westward expansion and permanent troops
Proclamation of 1763

15. North America Before 1754

16. North America After 1763 (after French losses)

17. British Colonies at End of the Seven Years’ War, 1763 This map, showing the colonies thirteen years before the Declaration of Independence, helps to explain why the British would be unable to conquer their offspring. The colonists were spreading rapidly into the backcountry, where the powerful British navy could not flush them out. During the Revolutionary War, the British at one time or another captured the leading colonial cities—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston—but the more remote interior remained a sanctuary for rebels.