From British to American?
• WARM-UP: On your notes, spend five minutes
answering these questions in complete sentences:
• We’ve talked about differences among
the colonies. What did they have in
common? Were their similarities or
differences more important?
• What binds us together today as
“Americans”?
• Today we will learn about two events that started
binding the colonies together as “Americans”
Enlightenment
Type of
movement
?
Leaders?
Ideas?
Actions?
Intellectual
Reason-based
Philosophical
Great Awakening
Religious movement that
sweeps through England and
the colonies
Jonathan Edwards
Colonies:
Europe:
Ben Franklin John Locke George Whitefield
Thomas Jefferson
All have Natural Rights:
Life & Liberty
Can understand the world
through reason and logic
Challenge & question
authority
Think for yourself
Salvation does not come
from the church, but is
between you and God
Challenge the authority of the
church (Puritans, Quakers, Anglican)
New churches formed
(Methodist, Baptist)
The French and Indian War 1754-1763
• Cause: Colonial rivals Britain and France
were in dispute over control over of the
Ohio River Valley and overall domination
of North America.
• Participants: The British, the American
Colonists and their Indian allies (Iroquois)
against the French and their Indian allies
(pretty much all the other Native
Americans).
• Short-term Outcome: After over 7 years of
fighting, the British won and took control of
North America east of the Mississippi.
• The colonists feel closer ties to Britain after
fighting for the home country.
The French and Indian War 1754-1763
• Let’s say that again…Who fought
who?
– The British (together with their
Indian allies, the Iroqouis)
vs
– The French (with their Indian
allies….the Huron)
• So what side were the colonists on??
“Ceded” means given
away, or lost!
How do we
prevent more
Indian wars?
Proclamation
Line of 1763
New Taxes
on the
Colonies!
How do we pay
for that expensive
war we just won?