Tuesday, October 20th

In your Interactive Student notebook (spiral) write or draw YOUR definition of MERCANTILISM.

Base your answer off of the activity we completed yesterday…

War fought in the colonies between the French and the

English and their allies.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 21st

Name the Who, What,Who, What, When, Where 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 1763TREATY 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 TREATYTERMS OF THE TREATY:

• Britain received all of Canada, French possessions EAST of Mississippi River and Florida

•Spain received the Louisiana Territory

TERMS OF THE TREATYTERMS OF THE TREATY:

• France kept 2 islands in Caribbean.

TERMS OF THE TREATYTERMS OF THE TREATY:

IMPORTANCE OF theIMPORTANCE OF the

FRENCH AND INDIAN WARFRENCH 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 RebellionPontiac’s Rebellion

•after the French and Indian War

•The Indians were upset with settlers because settlers want to own land.

Jeffery AmherstJeffery Amherstcommanding general of British forces in North America commanding general of British forces in North America

during the French and Indian Warduring the French and Indian War

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