Road to Revolution Begins The French and Indian WThe French and Indian War.
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Transcript of Road to Revolution Begins The French and Indian WThe French and Indian War.
Conflict Begins Between England and it’s colonies• By 1750 the colonies were
growing rapidly due to:• Cheap land• Religious tolerance• Economic opportunity
• BUT most importantly, England had left the colonies alone to solve their own problems• Salutary Neglect
• With this growth, colonists hoped to move across the Appalachian Mountains and into the Ohio River Valley
France and England Claim the Ohio River Valley
• Both France and England claimed this area
• France wanted to control trade with the Indians
• Britain wanted to extend the colonies to gain more land
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War Begins and Spreads
• From 1754-1763 war raged throughout the colonies
• Benjamin Franklin tried uniting the colonies with the Albany Plan of Union• Purpose: to unify the colonies
in order to better govern themselves and defeat the French
• Rejected: Colonial legislatures did not want to give up control
The Treaty of Paris, 1763
Terms of the treaty:• Britain gains all land from the
Atlantic to the Mississippi River• France gives
Louisiana (area west of the Mississippi) to Spain for their help
Pontiac’s Rebellion
• Pontiac, an Ottawa Indian, wanted to stop the loss of Native land • The fighting between the colonists and
the Ottawa became known as Pontiac’s Rebellion
• British decided that the western land would be expensive to defend so they passed the Proclamation of 1763• Outlawed settlement west of the
Appalachian Mts., including the Ohio River Valley…land they had just won!
Proclamation of 1763
• This angered colonists who had just fought a war for that land• Moving west was the only option for
same farmers to get land• The British government was
angry also• Colonists refused to pay extra taxes
to defend the land against the Ottawa
• They started to ignore the colonists’ arguments
• Hostility helped fuel the Revolution…
Draw on the back of your notes: Cause and Effect
1. colonies were growing
rapidly
2. colonists hoped to move
across Appalachian
Mts.
France and England
claimed this area
French and Indian
War 3. The Treaty of Paris, 1763
2. Proclamation of 1763- colonists cannot settle west of App. Mts.
1. Pontiac’s Rebellion
A. Britain gains from the Atlantic
to the Mississippi
B. Spain gets Louisiana