French and Indian War

English Settlements

• 1607 – Jamestown - Virginia• 1620 – Plymouth Rock –

Massachusetts– Over the next century – huge

influx of people migrating to the colonies

French and Indian War - 1754

• By this time – 13 colonies or English colonies• To the west – French settlements– They begin to battle over territory - Pittsburgh– French and Indians against the British and

colonists– American theatre of the Seven Years’ War (1756)– Both end in 1763 – Treaty of Paris• French land becomes British land• Trade, land to settle

Treaty of Paris

• Britain claimed French land east of the Mississippi River

• French lands west of Mississippi River - Spain

• Treaty ends French power

Proclamation of 1763

• Settlement was prohibited beyond Appalachian Mountains – land acquired– Avoiding further wars with

Natives

• This created much resentment by colonists toward crown

Huge Debt

• British in debt – costly war• Tax Colonists – pay off debt– They benefited from war

• 1765 – Stamp Act– Legal documents, papers

• Need stamp to be legitimate

– No representation in Parliament for Colonists