The French and Indian War
Road to Revolution Begins
Conflict Begins Between England
and it’s colonies
• By 1750 the colonies were
growing rapidly due to:
• Cheap land
• Religious tolerance
• Economic opportunity
• BUT most importantly, England
had left the colonies alone to
solve their own problems
• Salutary Neglect
• With this growth, colonists hoped
to move across the Appalachian
Mountains and into the Ohio
River Valley
France and England Claim the Ohio
River Valley
• Both France and England
claimed this area
• France wanted to control
trade with the Indians
• Britain wanted to extend
the colonies to gain more
land
War Begins and Spreads
• From 1754-1763 war raged
throughout the colonies
• Benjamin Franklin tried
uniting the colonies with the
Albany Plan of Union
• Purpose: to unify the colonies
in order to better govern
themselves and defeat the
French
• Rejected: Colonial
legislatures did not want to
give up control
The Treaty of Paris, 1763
Terms of the treaty:
• Britain gains all land from the
Atlantic to the Mississippi River
• France gives
Louisiana
(area
west of the
Mississippi)
to Spain for
their help
Pontiac’s Rebellion
• Pontiac, an Ottawa Indian, wanted
to stop the loss of Native land
• The fighting between the colonists and
the Ottawa became known as
Pontiac’s Rebellion
• British decided that the western
land would be expensive to
defend so they passed the
Proclamation of 1763
• Outlawed settlement west of the
Appalachian Mts., including the
Ohio River Valley…land they had
just won!
Proclamation of 1763
• This angered colonists who had
just fought a war for that land
• Moving west was the only option for
same farmers to get land
• The British government was
angry also
• Colonists refused to pay extra taxes
to defend the land against the
Ottawa
• They started to ignore the colonists’
arguments
• Hostility helped fuel the Revolution…
Draw this on the back of your French
& Indian War notes
Draw on the back of your notes:
Cause and Effect
1. Pontiac’s
Rebellion
1. colonies
were growing
rapidly
2. colonists
hoped to move
across
Appalachian
Mts.
France and
England
claimed this
area
French
and Indian
War
A. Britain gains
from the Atlantic
to the
Mississippi
2. Proclamation
of 1763- colonists
cannot settle west
of App. Mts.
3. The Treaty
of Paris, 1763
B. Spain gets
Louisiana