1. Trouble on the Frontier
Chapter 5: The Road to Revolution
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Ch. 5.1:
Trouble on the Frontier

2. Revolution What does this word mean?
How is a revolution is different from a war?
Think of a rule in your school or a law in your community that you would like to see changed. Describe some steps you could take to protest this rule or law.

3. Trouble on the Frontier
Chapter 5: The Road to Revolution
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Ch. 5.1:
Trouble on the Frontier
Unit 2 Focus Question
How did the colonists break away from Britain and create a republican form of government?

4. Objectives:
1) Identify the reasons why fighting broke out between France and Britain in North America
2) Describe the early defeat of the British by the French at the beginning of the French and Indian War
3) Explain how the British gained victory, and explain the results of the French and Indian War

6. Why did both France and Britain believe that their territories
Concept: Power
Why did both France and Britain believe that their territories
in North America were
worth fighting over?

8. Eastern North America

9. British North America

10. The French in North America

11. Why would the British be concerned about French forts in the west?

12. The Ohio River Valley

13. What was the significance of “The Forks”?
Forks of the Ohio
What was the significance of “The Forks”?

14. Which Indians had claims on the land at “The Forks?”
Native American Lands
Which Indians had claims on the land at “The Forks?”

15. (Hint: British, French, Native Americans)
Objective #1
Identify the reasons why fighting broke out between France and Britain in North America
(Hint: British, French, Native Americans)

16. Forks of the Ohio (close-up)

18. Conflict Along the Frontier

19. Conflict Along the Frontier
Ft. Duquesne
Braddock’s Defeat
Ft. Necessity

20. French and Indian War (1754-1763)
☻ France and England (and their Native American allies) fought for control of the Ohio River Valley in North America

21. Objective #2 Describe the early defeat of the British by the French
at the beginning of the
French and Indian War

22. Albany Congress What was it? What was its purpose?
Why did it fall apart?
Why did the colonies reject Ben Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union?

24. Explain this statement:
New leadership allowed
the British to win a series of important victories and led
to the French surrender

25. Treaty of Paris of 1763
☻ In 1763, the Treaty of Paris (1763) was signed after the Battle of Quebec and it marked the end of French power in North America
► Britain gained Canada and all French lands east of the Mississippi River
► Spain, France’s ally, gave up Florida to the British
► In return, Spain received all French land west of the Mississippi

28. Section Focus Question
How did the British
gain French territory
in North America?

29. Objectives:
1) Identify the reasons why fighting broke out between France and Britain in North America
2) Describe the early defeat of the British by the French at the beginning of the French and Indian War
3) Explain how the British gained victory, and explain the results of the French and Indian War

30. Chapter Focus Question
How did the colonists
break away from Britain
and create a republican form
of government?