BELL RINGER
COMPLETE IN YOUR BINDER: Analyze the picture you see below.
Who is in the picture? What are they doing?
What other features/details do you notice? What event do you
think this picture represents?
FRENCH
& INDIAN WAR
(British colonists)
Seven Year’s War
(Europe)
VS
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Fighting against the French and their Indian allies
• Cause:
the British wanted the same
territory as the French and tried to
force their claim to the land and the
French reacted
• Spain gets involved …
to help the French; Kings were cousins
who signed an agreement to support each
other.
“ Spanish King Charles III offered to come to the aid of his
cousin, French King Louis XV, and their representatives
signed an alliance known as the Family Compact on August
15, 1761. The terms of the agreement stated that Spain
would declare war on Great Britain if the war did not end
before May 1, 1762 originally intended to pressure the
British into a peace agreement, the Family Compact
ultimately reinvigorated the French will to continue the war,
and caused the British Government to declare war on Spain
on January 4, 1762, after bitter infighting among King
George III’s ministers.”
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war
War Ends
• In 1760
• Document ending the war is the
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Paris 1763
North America was divided as a
war prize:
- French lost Canada and all
territory East of the Mississippi
River to Great Britain
- Spain traded Florida to Great
Britain in return for Cuba
Meanwhile….
• In 1762, FRANCE transfers
Louisiana territory over to Spain
• (Secret ) Treaty of
Fountainebleu
“The said acceptation and ratification having been approved by us,
and regarded as a strong evidence of the friendship and good will of
our very dear and well-beloved cousin the Catholic King, we renew
and confirm by these presents the cession of Louisiana and of New
Orleans, with the island in which that city stands, promising
immediately to conclude with our said brother and cousin a
convention, in which the measures to be taken in concert for
executing and consummating this cession to our mutual
satisfaction will be fixed by common accord.
In faith whereof, we have caused these presents to be drawn up,
which we have signed with our hands, and have affixed to them our
secret seal.
Given at Versailles, on the twenty-third day of the month of
November, in the year of grace one thousand seven hundred and
sixty-two, and of our reign the forty-eighth.
Louis.
By the King : Choiseul, Duke de Praslin.”
• Was hidden from Great Britain because it
might have affected the war and its results
• Spain wanted the colony because…
–It would serve as a buffer and keep the
British away from the Spanish silver mines
in northern Mexico
–Control of the Mississippi River offered
even more protection
Exiles from French Acadia
Hard working trappers and farmers
Why were they enemies of the
British?
Refused to take an oath of
allegiance to the Protestant
British King
1764
“We are proud to be cadien with fidelity to the Good Lord, the family, and the country”
Important: In French, le, la, les, l ‘= the
L’Acadie
L’acadien (acadian)
La Cadien
Ca-jun
Cajun
Closure
Identify 2 facts that you can
recall and write one question
you still have about the
content.