The French and Indian War

1754-1763(the turning point)

vsNative Americans

Remember Our Goal:

To explain the factors that led to the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) between the American Colonies and Great Britain

Questions we need to ask...

What was life like in the colonies?What changed to make them angry?Why war?

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Who owns what? What problems may arise?

In a war, countries fight over something. In the French and Indian War, France and England (on behalf of the British colonies) were fighting over the Ohio River Basin.

Who owns this?

Who owns this?

Why fight over the Ohio River Basin?

both the French colonists, who claimed the land, and British colonists had business with Native Americans in Ohio to trade fur

by the 1750s, British colonists wanted to start building farms in the Ohio River Basin to expand their territory

the French tried to stop the British and the British fought back

Claiming the Land

Native American Alliances

There were many tribes in the Ohio River Basin. Some tribes sided with the French, some with the British, depending with whom they did business.

What happened?Conflict Begins

the French destroyed a village and British trading post to scare the British away

the French then built forts from Canada to modern-day Louisiana

this upset the colony of Virginia because they accused the French of taking Virginia’s land

so...Virginia sent George Washington and his soldiers to tell the French to leave

George Washington--

(He’s 40 in this portrait, but he

was only 21 when he was

sent to kick out the French.)

What happened? (cont.)

the British colonists built their own fort to defend the colony of Virginia

the French seized it (that means they took it)

The French and Indian War officially began

Help from the Motherland

the British army was sent to help the colonists fight the French

The French and Indian War was part of the Seven Years War- a worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for territory.

The French and Indian War decided which nation would control the

northern and eastern parts of North America.

Because it was part of a greater struggle, other countries were also involved.

ended the French and Indian War in 1763

the British won

Great Britain was given the land east of the Mississippi River, including Florida

The Treaty of

Paris

Effects of the Treaty

Great Britain just won a bunch of

land =+the land is

connected to the British colonies

Happy colonists who now have room to expandX

The colonists should be happy they won the war, right? They were, but

remember this war was also the turning point for the colonies with Great Britain. The effects of this war changed the dynamic of the relationship between the mother

country and her colonies.

Looking at this map, what do

you think the red line

means?

The British realized that if the colonists moved west into the newly won land, they would continue to need military protection...not from the French, but from the Native Americans.

Things turn sour...Proclamation

of 1763 the British could not afford to keep protecting the colonists and the colonists had nothing more than colonial militias to protect themselves

so...the British issued the Proclamation of 1763

it prohibited the colonists from moving west past the line, even though they had helped fight the war

After the ProclamationBased on what you know about

colonial life, and how the colonies were used to interacting with their mother country thousands of miles

away...how do you think the colonists are going to react to the

Proclamation of 1763?

Ready, get set...discuss!