• Read the “Analyzing
a Political Cartoon”
Handout
• Use Do Now Slot #1
to analyze this
cartoon
– Follow the three
analysis steps at the
end of the handout
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• Analyze the
causes of
the French
and Indian
War
• Identify the
spark that
starts the
French and
Indian War
• Evaluate
the first
years of the
French and
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Indian War
• Evaluate how GB wins the French & Indian War
• Analyze the ESP effects of the French & Indian War
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on American society and American-British relations
1. War of the Grand Alliance (1688-1697)
– AKA King William’s War
2. War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
– AKA Queen Anne’s War
3. War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
– AKA King George’s War
4. 7 Years War (1756-1763)
– AKA French and Indian War
Always GB (& allies)
vs France (& allies)
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3. 1754 - 1763
4. Opponents…
5. How did each
country settle
their land?
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• One of the first
political cartoons in
US history is made
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• You and the partner next
to you are to analyze the
cartoon by answering
the two questions
provided.
• Use the space around
the cartoon to write
comments and analysis.
• Make sure you and your
partner have different
colored pens.
• Draw arrows between
comments, so that the
flow of the discussion is
displayed. No arrows =
Partial Credit
• Only one person can
write at a time
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1. What important details do you notice in this cartoon?
What do they mean? Why are they included?
2. What “idea” is this cartoon a metaphor for? How does
the cartoon display the “idea?”
• What is the plan?
• What was it based on?
• Why was it rejected?
• Why is it important?
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3. 1754 - 1763
4. Opponents…
5. How did each
country settle
their land?
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• French
• British
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• Land (specifically?)
• Beaver fur trade monopoly
– Why?
– w/whom?
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• 1754…GW is
ambushed
• 1755,
Braddock
Expedition
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• Almost gets shot
• 2 horses get shot
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Behind me is
the fort (&
eventual city)
that GB
wanted…
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One
major
reason
why?
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• Prime Minister William
Pitt (elder) took control
of army in 1757
– GB takes French fort
Duquesne and names it?
• Financed war (2 ways)
– Borrowed $$$
– Taxed…
• Creates 2 new policies
w/colonies 
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1. Impressment
– British Gov
forced
colonists to
join the army
and navy…
Will we pay
the colonists
back?
2. Take stuff
– Supplies from
colonists
– Lodging…
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What are we
upset about?
• GB eases off the
colonists
– If British take supplies
or stay in colonist’s
home…
– Who will recruit
soldiers in the
colonies?
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• Take
French
fort one
after
another
• Push
French
North to
Canada
to…
• Take
Quebec
in 1759
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• Between GB,
France and
Spain
• Map of North
America
before the
French &
Indian War 
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• Map of North
America after
F&I War 
• What do you
see?
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• Native Americans (Wabanaki) who joined the French
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• France = 
• We will/must get REVENGE!!
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– Gain
important
land…
• Ohio &
Caribbean
•
too!
– GB has
a major

problem now
– GB is angry
with
someone…
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• GB felt colonists didn’t
fight well (that’s not what
we thought )
• GB felt colonists didn’t
give much $$$
contribution to war
• GB felt colonists were
sneaky…
– Traded with French during
the war (parents analogy)
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• Why be
worried?
– Friction
between…
– Who is
taking/losing
power in the
colonies?
• GB army =
overrated
• Excited too…
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• Needs $$$
from all of
these wars
• Who will
resist taxes
after the
F&I War?
(why?)
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• Can’t rule colonies
so casually anymore
– no more following
this policy…
• Will this be easy to do
to the colonists? 43
• Needs $$$
from all of
these wars
• Who will
resist taxes
after the
F&I War?
(why?)
• Where do
you go for
$$$ now?
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