Tuesday, October 20 th In your Interactive Student notebook (spiral) write or draw YOUR definition of MERCANTILISM. Base your answer off of the activity we completed yesterday…

allies. War fought in the colonies between the French and the English and their allies. The English based their claims on Cabot and the French based their claims on LaSalle and Champlain.

The English wanted the Ohio Valley because of fertile farmland or agriculture. They wanted permanent settlements.

French wanted fur trade and did NOT want permanent settlements.

Borders of Ohio River Valley Ohio River Valley lies between the Ohio River and Canada and between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains.

The war started in 1754 when the French and Huron Indians attacked Fort Necessity.

Wednesday, October 21 st Who, What, When, Where Name the Who, What, When, Where of the French and Indian War

FRENCH ADVANTAGES : 1.Single governmental control in the colonies 2. guerilla warfare (war tactics such as raids and ambushes) 3. network of forts from Quebec down the Mississippi River 4. Huron Indians

BRITISH ADVANTAGES: 1.Larger population; closer together 2. controlled Atlantic Ocean- blockade coast 3. natural resources 4. Iroquois Indians (ee-reh-quoi)

Proposed by Benjamin Franklin It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies under one government. Based on the Iroquois Confederacy.

wanted the colonists to join together for defensive purposes. The colonists rejected this plan.

This cartoon was used by Franklin to illustrate that the colonies were not united. Franklin thought that colonies would die if not united.

George Washington was sent to warn the French to get out of the Ohio Valley. He would build Fort Necessity. Young Washington

Fort Necessity would become Fort Duquesne once the French captured it.

Washington learned invaluable lessons about guerilla warfare and would use this against the British when the colonies fought for freedom.

William Pitt British Prime Minister towards end of the war thought that England should pay all expenses of war put England into debt

Throughout the war the British had a secret weapon. The Indians were convinced that the bagpipes, played by the Scottish regiments, were actually demons out to carry away their souls

Battle of Quebec Last battle of the war; the English won. French leader-Marquis de Montcalm- and English leader-Wolfe both mortally wounded.

TREATY OF PARIS 1763 Officially ended the war Signed in Paris, France England secured more territory in this treaty than any other nation has ever obtained.

TERMS OF THE TREATY TERMS OF THE TREATY: Britain received all of Canada, French possessions EAST of Mississippi River and Florida

Spain received the Louisiana Territory TERMS OF THE TREATY TERMS OF THE TREATY:

France kept 2 islands in Caribbean. TERMS OF THE TREATY TERMS OF THE TREATY:

IMPORTANCE OF the FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1.Colonists became more independent. 2. Colonial militia gained experience. 3. England decided to govern more rigidly and make colonists pay for war.

Pontiac’s Rebellion after the French and Indian War The Indians were upset with settlers because settlers want to own land.

Jeffery Amherst commanding general of British forces in North America during the French and Indian War

sends blankets contaminated with smallpox to Indians no natural resistance-die by thousands