Bell Work
 What was the Zenger Trial? How would that impact free speech in the
colonies? (pg. 99-100)
This Day in History:
September 2, 1789- The U.S. Department of Treasury is founded by Congress.
September 2, 1945- Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the
Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
September 2, 1969- President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a
heart attack in Hanoi.
September 2, 1973- J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of the best-selling fantasy novelsThe
Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
British-French Rivalry
 By the 1700s the British and French were competing for
power in North America, particularly in the Ohio River
Valley.
 In 1754, the governor of Virginia sent a militia lead by
George Washington to seize a French fort in western
Pennsylvania.
 Washington was forced to surrender and this became
the start of the French and Indian War.
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Norman Invasion of England, (1066)
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Anglo-French War, (1521-1526)
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Anglo-French War, (1542-1546)
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Anglo-French War, (1549-1550)
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Anglo-French War, (1557-1560)
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Anglo-French War, (1589-1593)
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Anglo-French War, (1627-1628)
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Anglo-French War, (1666-1667)
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Anglo-French War, (1689-1697)
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Anglo-French War, (1702-1712)
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Anglo-French War, (1744-1748)
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Anglo-French War, (1749-1754)
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Anglo-French War, (1755-1763)
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Anglo-French War, (1779-1783)
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Wars of the French Revolution, (1792-1802)
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Austro-Prussian Invasion of France, (1792)
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War of the First Coalition, (1792-1798)
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War of the Second Coalition, (1798-1801)
Anglo-French War, (1109-1113)
Anglo-French War, (1116-1119)
Anglo-French War, (1123-1135)
Anglo-French War, (1159-1189)
Anglo-French War, (1202-1204)
Anglo-French War, (1213-1214)
Anglo-French War, (1242-1243)
Anglo-French War, (1294-1298)
Anglo-French War, (1300-1303)
The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
Anglo-French War, (1337-1360)
Anglo-French War, (1369-1373)
Anglo-French War, (1412-1420)
Anglo-French War, (1423-1453)
Anglo-French War, (1475)
Anglo-French War, (1488)
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Anglo-French War, (1489-1492)
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Anglo-French War, (1510-1513)
Native American Allies
 Natives typically distrusted the British because of
their hunger for land.
 Most Indians sided with the French because the
French were just interested in the fur trade.
 The British tried to form an alliance with the Iroquois
Confederacy to no avail. The Iroquois did promise to
remain neutral.
The Albany Plan
 In 1754 Ben Franklin
proposed the Albany
Plan to unify all of
the 13 colonies under
a centralized
government. It was a
failure, but it would
later influence the
Founding Fathers.
British Defeat the French
 While the French enjoyed early victories, the British
took over the war in 1757 when William Pitt became
prime minister.
 Pitt sent better trained troops to North America and
promised to pay for the costs of the war with the
intention of raising taxes following it.
Treaty of Paris, 1763
 Ended the war
 Britain received French Canada as well as France’s land
east of the Mississippi River.
 Britain received Florida from France’s ally Spain.
 Spain acquired French lands west of the Mississippi River
called Louisiana, as well as the port of New Orleans.
Post War
 The loss was a blow to Native Americans because the British
began taking their land and raising the prices of their goods.
 Chief Pontiac who lived near Detroit lead a war on the colonists
beginning in 1763.
 The Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlers from crossing the
Appalachian Mountains to settle. They stationed 10,000 troops
in North America to enforce this law.
 The war hurt the British financially so they made plans to raise
taxes.
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