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French and Indian War French and Indian War 1754 - 17631754 - 1763
Why Was This A Cause of the American
Revolution?
The British Side
British
Colonies
Iroquois
Fight European Style - In Rows
Ben Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union tries to get colonies to help England - Colonies say “NO!”
Avoid most fighting Only want goods
The French Side
French
Most Native Americans
Coureurs de Bois, military fought like Indians - Guerilla Warfare
Feared the English moving west in large numbers
Albany Plan of Union Ben Franklin of
Pennsylvania urges 13 colonies (who don’t get along), to create a union to help the British war effort
Colonies refuse – lack of cooperation
British aren’t disappointed – fear the colonies working together might create a problem
1) In Ben Franklin’s cartoon above, what does each section of the snake represent?
2) What was Franklin trying to accomplish with the printing of this piece?
3) How does this cartoon relate to the Albany Plan?
Causes of the French and Indian War
Fashion
Land Claims
Rivalry
Furs are wanted in Europe
English colonies push west into New France
England and France despise each other
Battles
Fort Duquesne French Fort in what is now Pittsburgh
Three rivers allow for travel, trade
George Washington and troops sent to capture it, but caught by Indians and run away
Guerilla Warfare - hiding and fighting in small groups. “Hit and Run” tactics learned from Native Americans.
Who fought this way? What advantages did it bring?
Look closely - where is this location?
Fort Necessity Washington and men have 24 hours to build fort
Small, poorly built, Moronicstupididioticnumskull location
French and NAs capture Fort, send Washington and men home w/o weapons
Edward “Bulldog” Braddock
Fights European style - in rows
French learned to fight like NAs - hiding and quiet (Guerilla Warfare)
Braddock’s “Sneak Attack” heard for miles
Braddock and 500 other Brits killed, Washington has troops run away
French and NAs lose 50
Turning Point
Brits capture Quebec (1759)
Cuts off supply route to French and NA troops
Too many British troops outlast the outnumbered French
French surrender in 1763
Effects of F and I War Treaty of Paris
(1763)
War Debt for Britain
Britain gets Canada, all lands to Mississippi except New Orleans
Britain gets Florida from Spain (Spain jumped in at the end)
Issues between colonists and NAs west of App. Mtns.
Because the colonies refused to fight or pay for war here, Britain is in debt
Britain decides to have colonies pay taxes for war debt (people in England paid taxes, colonists did not)
These taxes (Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts) lead to Revolutionary War