French and Indian War

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French and Indian War

• Unit 2

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Essential Questions

• What were causes and effects of the French and
  Indian war?

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French colonial history

• 1608 Quebec is established
• No major cities
• Economy based on fur trading
• Equal treatment of the natives

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1600s America
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1750 America
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French and Indian War

• 1754-1763
• One of many conflicts between French and British
• Causes?

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Battle of Fort Necessity (1754)

• First major battle
• 22 yr old Washington leads 150 soldiers to
  control 200,000 acres of French land promised to
  British colonists
• Washington has a fort built but it is lost to the
  French
• French claim the spot and call the new fort
  Duquesne

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Fort Necessity
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Braddocks defeat

• 1755 Gen. Braddock leads 2,000 men march on Fort
  Duquesne
• Braddocks forces ambushed by French and Indian
  forces

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How and why did Braddock lose?
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Key parts to the British victory

• 1757 Pitt becomes leader in Parliament
• 1758 Pitt organizes attacks on Montreal Quebec
• 1758 British align with Iroquois Indians
• 1758 Fort Duquesne falls, renamed Pittsburgh
• 1759 Quebec falls

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Battle of Quebec
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1750 America
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Proclamation line of 1763

• Potential Problems?

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End of the War

• 1763 Treaty of Paris ends war
• France turns over majority of land to British
• 1763-1765 Pontiacs War
• Proclamation of 1763 Colonists are forbidden
  from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
• Impact on colonies?