Chapter 7 Lesson 3
Conflicts Over Land
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Conflicts Over Land
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The French and Indian war began with
arguments over who really owned the land.
Land claimed by early explorers Marquette
and la Salle was claimed by the French. They
built forts and trading posts on this land.
England also claimed the land. In the
original charters, the King claimed the land
from coast to coast.
Conflicts Over Land
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Now that the land along the East Coast
was filling up, English settlers began to
push west. Settlers built houses on
Indian hunting grounds.
Native Americans were alarmed and
willing to fight to protect their lands.
King Phillip’s War
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 King Phillip was an Indian Chief also known as
Metacom or Metacomet. The English gave him the
name King Phillip as a joke.
 Metacomet wanted the local Indian tribes to unite to
fight the British and he was successful for a while,
but not all native peoples sided with Metacometsome sided with the British.
 After a year of bitter fighting, Metacom was killed
and with him the hope that the English would leave
his homeland.
Conflicts Over Land
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Now that the Indian conflict was over,
English settlers began pushing west.
Frontiersman Daniel Boone opened up the
Wilderness Road that once was an Indian
trail. Boone showed the trail to families so
that they could travel with wagons and
animals for the 300 miles over the mountains
into farm rich Kentucky.
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Conflict Over Land
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 With the English victory, more settlers moved west
into an area called the backcountry.
 Families built log cabins and carved small farms
from the rocky soil.
 The backcountry land was cheaper to buy than land
closer to the coast because:
 It was not cleared
 It was not as well protected
 The soil was full of rocks and the land was covered with
trees that needed to be cleared.
Backcountry
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(If I Had a Hammer)
If I was in the back-country…
I’d have to build a cabin
I’d have to build a cabin
On rugged land
There’d be ro-cky soi-l
There’d be Appalachian Moun-tains
We’d chop down trees
and build the cabin of our dre-ams
Allllll in the backcoun-try
Oh, No They Didn’t
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 Settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains and
moved farther west into territory that the French
claimed as New France.
 The French began building forts in this region as
protection against the English.
 The British wrote a letter to the French and
demanded that they leave the Ohio River Valley.
 It was George Washington, a soldier in the British
Army who delivered that letter!
George Washington, British Officer
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 Of course, the French refused to leave.
 George Washington returned to the Ohio River
Valley with 150 men that he commanded.
 His job was to build a fort for the English in a
strategic spot.
 When Washington arrived, he saw that the French
beat him to it. The French were building Fort
Duquesne.
Map It Out
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Open your textbook to pages 248-249.
Look closely at the map on the bottom of
page 248.
Find Fort Duquesne on the map. Why was
this spot considered to be strategic?
Looking at the map, can you tell if
Washington captured the French fort?
What did Washington do after the battle?
Your Turn to Find Out
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Read pages 249-250 to find out what
happened during the French and
Indian war.
As you read, make a list of the
important events.
Be sure to pay attention to the maps on
the bottom of page 250. Can you tell
the difference between the two maps?
The Battle of Quebec
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British Landing Barge
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The Cliffs of Abraham
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Battle Map
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Quebec was Heavily Protected –
on one side
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Death of General Wolfe
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A Summary
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The Aftermath
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 The British were able to win this war because of
the additional soldiers, weapons, ammunition,
and boats that were sent from England.
 This cost England a lot of money. The war is
going to cause the English government to go into
deep debt.
 The Native Americans who had lived on this
land for generations are now ruled by a foreign
government.
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Grade Movie Project
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One Way to Study
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 Take a look at the chapter review on pages 252 and
253 in your textbook for chapter 7.
 The questions will help you understand which
information may be on the test.
 Remember, we have a different vocabulary list than
the one in the book.