1. 5.3 French & Indian War OBJECTIVE:
Learn about the causes and effects of the French and Indian War
Understand how the war was a cause of the American Revolution

2. TRUE OR FALSE
The British Parliament passed the Sugar Act to reduce the colonies’ production of sugar.
The Proclamation of 1763 was intended to keep Native Americans from settling in British territory.
General Braddock’s victory at Ft. Duquesne set the stage for Britain’s invasion of Canada.
William Pitt was Britain’s greatest general of the war.
The French and Indian war lasted 5 years.

3. Map: European Claims in North America
The dramatic results of the British victory in the Seven Years (French and Indian) War are vividly demonstrated in these maps, which depict the abandonment of French claims to the mainland after the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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4. Competition for Fur Trade

5. Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham
Bingham's is the best known of the many prints and paintings depicting this singular moment in colonial westward expansion. (Washington University Art Gallery)
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6. Wilderness Road
What is the connection between the Wilderness Road and Shay’s Rebellion?

7. Fort Necessity, May 1754 (reconstruction)

8. Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)

9. BRADDOCK ROAD

10. Braddock’s Defeat 1755 Gen. Braddock, 2,000 men march on Fort Duquesne
Mix of colonial militia and Regulars
Braddock’s slow moving forces decimated by French and Indian forces, flanking
Frontier goes up in flames, Indian raiding parties move uncontested
Britian’s invasion of Canada, 1756, fails

11. Franklin’s Cartoon, Pennsylvania Gazette
Albany Plan for Union
Franklin’s Cartoon, Pennsylvania Gazette

12. William Pitt takes Charge
1757, Pitt becomes leader in Parliament
1758, Pitt organizes attacks on French forts
1758 Fort Duquesne falls, renamed Pittsburgh
Pitt puts his best general, James Wolfe,
in charge of taking Quebec
1759 Quebec falls; Generals Wolfe and Montcalm killed
Battle for Quebec is one of most significant engagements in British and American history
Montreal falls 1760

13. Fall of Quebec, 1759 Battle on the Plains of Abraham

15. Painting by Benjamin West called The Death of General Wolfe, 1770
Painting by Benjamin West called The Death of General Wolfe, The scene depicts the death of Gen. James Wolfe at the battle of the Plains of Abraham in Read more:

16. Peace? Line of Demarcation 1763
France thrown off continent entirely
Spain given possession of New Orleans and trans-Mississippi Louisiana
Great Britain dominant in North America and at sea
Friction growing b/w Britain and Colonials
Pontiac’s Uprising – Increasing tension with N. Americans
Cost of War leads to increasing friction with Britain

18. Pontiac’s Uprising

19. Map: European Settlements and Indians, 1754
Indian tribes
1750

20. Colonies and Britain Grow Apart
Line of Demarcation inhibits movement west!!!
This angers Colonials greatly.
10,000 British troops stationed in colony
Quartering of troops angers colonists
Cost of troops in Colonies heavy burden for Great Britain
Seeds of Rebellion

21. CONFLICT IN THE OHIO VALLEY
Braddock defeated
Wash. defeated
Pitt takes charge
Quebec falls
Ft. Duquesne falls
Montreal falls
PEACE?
1763
France leaves Am.
FL now British