1. The French and Indian War

2. How did the French and Indian War lead to a change in the Relationship between the colonies and Great Britain?

3. The French and Indian War (1754-1763)
AKA The Seven Years War
NOT French vs. Indians
British, colonists, and some Indians vs. French and more Indians
Causes: disputes over land in N. America (primarily the Ohio Valley)

4. Key Players Ben Franklin (Station #1)
Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie
The Ohio Company
George Washington
France, Britain, Indian Tribes/Confederations
Prussia and Austria, Russia and Spain

6. Consequences-Treaty of Paris, 1763

7. Consequences Pontiac’s Rebellion (Station #2)
Collective Indian identity—reject European culture and technology, push out British settlers
Hundreds killed

8. Consequences
Proclamation of 1763

9. Consequences
Final nail in the coffin for Pennsylvania’s friendly Indian policy
The Paxton Boys

10. Consequences
Collective identity amongst colonists (the same people who rejected the Albany Plan of Union 9 years earlier) (Station #3)

11. Consequences $$$$ Economic Crisis in France
Britain rolls out a series of taxes on colonies starting with the Stamp Act (Station #4)

12. Consequences – end of Salutary Neglect
Sugar Act (1764) – reduced tax on imports from the West Indies
Meant to end smuggling, tax invasion
Smugglers tried without jury
Revenue Act – extension of the Navigation Acts
More goods to be shipped through England
Currency Act
Stamp Act (1765)