French and Indian War
1754 - 1763
Why Was This A
Cause of the American
Revolution?
The Causes:
1)Britain and France are Rivals
2)Britain moving west into New France
Who is Fighting?
British, 13
colonies
(sort of),
Iroquois
(hardly)
French
and
most
Native
Ameri
cans
The British Side
 British
 Fight European Style - In Rows
 Colonies
 Ben Franklin’s Albany Plan of
Union tries to get colonies to help
England - Colonies say “NO!”
 Iroquois
 Avoid most fighting
 Only want goods
The French Side
 French
 Coureurs de Bois, military
fought like Indians - Guerilla
Warfare
 Most Native
Americans
 Feared the English moving
west in large numbers
Albany Plan of Union
 Ben Franklin of
Pennsylvania urges 13
colonies (who don’t get
along), to create a union to
help the British war effort
 Colonies refuse – lack of
cooperation
 British aren’t disappointed
– fear the colonies working
together might create a
problem
1) In Ben Franklin’s cartoon above, what does each
section of the snake represent?
2) What was Franklin trying to accomplish with the
printing of this piece?
3) How does this cartoon relate to the Albany Plan?
Causes of the French
and Indian War
 Fashion
 Furs are wanted in Europe
 Land Claims
 English colonies push west
into New France
 Rivalry
 England and France despise
each other
Battles
 Fort Duquesne
 French Fort in what is now
Pittsburgh
 Three rivers allow for travel,
trade
 George Washington and
troops sent to capture it, but
caught by Indians and run
away
George Washington as a 23 year old
Lieutenant in the Virginia Militia
Guerilla Warfare - hiding and fighting in small groups.
“Hit and Run” tactics learned from Native Americans.
Who fought this way? What advantages did it bring?
Look closely - where is this location?
 Fort Necessity  Washington and men have 24
hours to build fort
 Small, poorly built,
Moronicstupididioticnumskull
location
 French and NAs capture Fort,
send Washington and men
home w/o weapons
Fort Necessity - Are you impressed?
Effects of F and I War
gets Canada, all lands to
 Treaty of Paris  Britain
Mississippi except New Orleans
(1763)
 Britain gets Florida from Spain


 War Debt for

Britain

(Spain jumped in at the end)
Issues between colonists and NAs
west of App. Mtns.
Because the colonies refused to fight
or pay for war here, Britain is in debt
Britain decides to have colonies pay
taxes for war debt (people in England
paid taxes, colonists did not)
These taxes (Sugar Act, Stamp Act,
Townshend Acts) lead to
Revolutionary War