French Indian War Seven Years War The Great

French & Indian War Seven Years’ War The Great War for Empire

Warm Up �What does this passage mean to you? ‘In a sense, the history of the United States began with the fall of Quebec and Montreal: the infant republic was cradled on the Plains of Abraham’

NA before King William’s & Queen Anne’s Wars

France vs Great Britain � King William’s War, 1689 – 1713 • France vs GB • part of a bigger conflict b/w France, GB & Spain for trading rights � British victory -1713 • control of northern Canada, �Nova Scotia (Acadia) & Newfoundland • 40 years later will cause the migration of Acadians ‘cajuns’ to French held Louisiana • Est. a 50 year period of salutary neglect by GB of its American colonies �GB will not need to enforce Navigation Acts

NA after the Treaty of Utrecht

What do these images have to do with the French & Indian War?

War of Jenkin’s Ear -King George’s War (1744 -48) � Small part of the conflict in Europe known as the War of Austrian Succession � Spain attacked British merchant ship & tried to reneg on slave trade agreement w/Britain �

�French & Indian War, 1754 - 1763 • Began in NA, but spread to Europe, Africa & the Philippines (Seven Years’ War) • British colonists wanted to expand into the Ohio Valley, but France needed to control this area to link Canada to the Mississippi Valley • 1754 Albany Congress set up a plan of union to help defend the colonies against Indian/French attacks

Causes of F&I War �Iroquois end trade w/France & give trade concession to the British (1748 -) �French build forts in the Ohio Valley �VA Gov. Dinwiddie sends militia (led by G. Washington) to challenge French presence • French attack Fort Necessity, Washington surrenders �GB declares war • Early battles at Ft. Duquesne (F&I win) • Quebec City (GB win)* ultimately leads to British victory in the Americas

Indian territories, 1754 Iroquois Confederacy –Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga (GB allies) Huron, Algonquin (French Allies )

Effects of the F&I War � Treaty of Paris (1763) • France gave control of lands east of the Mississippi & Canada to GB �Iroquois & other interior tribes lost the ability to play rival European nations off each other � Pontiac’s War –Ottawa chief led tribes against British settlers in Detroit, killing more than 2, 000 �British retaliated with inflicting smallpox on Indians �GB establishes the Proclamation Line �settlement west banned in order to work out potential conflicts w/ Indians west of the Appalachians

The War for Empire