Tuesday Warm Up:
• Attach “French and Indian War” timeline to the
left hand side on page 12 of your notebook.
When finished, grab your Memorials.
1. French men moved west
of the Appalachian
Mountains and settled as
fur traders, establishing a
friendly and profitable
relationship with Native
Americans.
SPANISH
ENGLISH
FRENCH
• French - small trading posts, not
large military forts
• 80,000 French, 1,000,000 British
• French traded with Native
Americans for furs , blankets, iron,
guns
2. British settlers moved west, disrupting
the relationship between the French and
Native Americans.
• British built forts, moving onto
Native American land
• This increased tension between
between the British, French and
their Native American allies.
3. French and Indian War fought between
England and France, with Native American
Nations fighting on both sides of the conflict.
• George Washington led English
soldiers.
• French Allies - Algonquian and
Huron
• British Allies - Iroquois League
Washington in the War
• Washington was a colonel in the British
army. He was not a General.
• Washington was in his
Early-Mid 20s during the
French & Indian War
4. Treaty of
Paris, 1763 ended
the war. France
lost all land in
North America.
England and
Spain now claim
land in North
America.
• Britain claimed most land East
of Mississippi River
• Spain claimed most land West
of Mississippi River
• France lost land in North
America
5. After the war
ends, King George
issues Proclamation
of 1763 forbidding
English colonists
from settling West
of the Appalachian
Mountains.
• Area east of Appalachian
Mountains is crowded with
British colonists.
• Colonists wanted to move west
to get land.
• Prediction: Will the colonists
follow the rules of their King?
What will happen if they don’t?
Page 9: Political
• What did the war mean for the French?
• What did the King of England do in
1763 after the war?
• What did this mean for the Americans?
Indians?
Economic
• What did the war mean for the Indians?
• What did the war bring to the British?
• What did the King start doing to the
Americans?
Geographic
• Who lost land?
• Who gained land?
• What land was lost and gained?