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I can explain the significance,
outcomes and effects of the
French and Indian War
Short Cycle Assessment
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Notes
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Discussion
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Start PPICE & Chart work
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French and Indian
War
UNIT 1 Mastery Projects DUE
Basic Unit 1 Work DUE
No mastery is given
until basic work is in
UNIT 2
PPICE (SFI)
PEGS CHART
FRENCH INDIAN WAR CHART
REVOLUTION CHART
CONCEPT SUMMARY CHART
OUTLINE ch 4-6
French Indian War (1754) to
US Constitution (1787)
GENERALIZATIONS
ALL DUE
Thursday September 22 B day
Friday September 23rd A day
I can explain the
significance, outcomes
and effects of the
French and Indian War
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Causes
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 Colonial Expansion
French and Indian War:
Opportunity for conflict or
cooperation with the Mother
Country
 French tried to stop British
colonial expansion in the Ohio
Valley
 Built forts to protect fur trade
French and Indian War is also
called the SEVEN YEARS’ WAR
(that lasted 9 years)
1754-1763
AND
French and Indians fought on the
same side not against each other
War for Empire
 Iroquois opposed any white
settlement
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Albany Congress 1754
 Deny want Iroquois land
 Asked for help against France
 Albany plan rejected
French and Indian
War
Causes
French built fort Duquesne in
response to Ohio company
land grants
(3 rivers)
 George Washington – Ohio
Company stock holder
 Attacked Fort Duquesne
 Lost and went back to
Virginia
 Welcomed as a hero
 Expansionist demand war
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1756 Britain declared war on
France
 Great War for Empire
I can explain the
significance, outcomes
and effects of the
French and Indian War
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Major Battle Zones
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Great War for Empire
 Spain, France Austria
vs. Britain & Prussia
Europe, America, India & West
Africa
William Pitt
-architect of war effort in
North America
-took back Fort Duquesne and
renamed Ft. Pitt
British Triumph
I can explain the
significance, outcomes
and effects of the
French and Indian War
Results
Treaty of Paris 1763
England is colonial power on
continent
English Control over Canada
and east of the Mississippi
valley
Proclamation line of 1763
End of Salutary Neglect
British relaxed supervision
in colonial affairs
“let sleeping dogs lie”
I can explain the
significance, outcomes
and effects of the
French and Indian War
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Great war for Empire
French out
British dominated all of
eastern North America
New Taxes
self- government gives
way to direct rule
Issue of Home Rule
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Weak royal governors
Share power with colonial
assemblies
Taxes
Pay for war debt in England
and not to support the
colonies
 Revenue Act 1762
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 Royal Navy size American
ships from French West Indies
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Revenue to support troops
 Import duties on tobacco and
sugar
 Effected poor and middle
classes by rising prices
I can explain the
significance, outcomes
and effects of the
French and Indian War
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Deployment of British troops
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Tax bureaucracy
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“Secure the dependence of
the colonies on Great Britain”
Subdue French, Indians or
rebellious colonist.
More agents
Sales tax on salt, beer and
distilled spirits
George Greenville – Prime
Minister 1763
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New revenue from America
Currency Act 1764
 Ban paper money
 Pay in gold or silver
I can explain the
significance, outcomes
and effects of the
French and Indian War
Discussion
Internal Conflicts
What were the differences in
the world view of the Native
Americans and the first
settlers? Could any lasting
accommodation between
them have been reached?
What were the different political
agendas between the settlers
on the East coast and those in
the backcountry?
Why were loyalties primarily
local in the colonies? Why
did the early attempts at
unity fail?
I can explain the
significance, outcomes
and effects of the
French and Indian War
Discussion
French and Indian War
What vision of the American
colonist did the British hold
after the French-Indian War?
Was this vision accurate?
What consequences did the
results of the French and
Indian war have for the
Thirteen Colonies?
To what extend did the
American Revolution begin
in Europe?
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