Unit 3 : 1754 - 1800

Question 1

General background information for French and Indian War

Answer 1

• conflict between British and Frech
• French allied themselves with certain Native Americans
• so did the British, but not significant for this conflict

Question 2

What are some causes of the French and Indian War? What was the Seven Years War?

Answer 2

• smaller conflict in the context of a larger global conflict between British and French called
• worldwide conflict
• French and Indian War smaller conflict that was part of it, on American soil
• British Americans were steadily encroaching on lan in the Ohio River Valley that the French laid claim to

IN SHORT:
- territorial disputes in the Ohio River Valley between the French and the British caused French and Indian War to begin in 1754

Question 3

Who was George Washington during this period? How did he contribute to the French and Indian War?

Answer 3

• Virginian officer
• by 1753, he had been appointed lieutenant Colonel in Virginia militia.
• governor sent him west to warn that the French were encroaching on British holdings in Ohio River valley
  – the French commander took control of British post in Pennsylvania named Fort Duquesne
• Washington with help from American Indian allies led a surprise attack on fort in 1754 and gained it back
  – French took it back again -_-

Question 4

What was the Albany Congress?

Answer 4

• the meeting of British colonial delegates
  – invited delegation from Iroquios Confederacy to ally (they didn’t)
• met before Washington at Fort Duquesne
• discussed for a more organized response to frontier defense, trade, and westward expansion

Question 5

Why did the Natives ally with the Europeans despite the Europeans taking their ancestral land away?

Answer 5

• it was their best chance of maintaining some medium of control over their lands
  – lay in conflict between European powers
• this gave them a chance to maintain control while the Europeans were busy fighting each other

Question 6

What was Benjamin Franklins Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 6

• introduced at the Albany Congress
• goal: establish council of representatives to decide on matters (frontier, defense, trade, westward expansion)
• ultimately rejected
  – did not want the taxation it required
• laid the foundation for future revolutionary Congress

Question 7

Who was winning French and Indian War initially? What was the extent of it, and how did it impact thing within the colonies?

Answer 7

• French initially mopped floor with British
• Seven Years war expanding to global conflict
• as it did, British implemented policies that were unpopular with American Colonists

Question 8

What was impressment?

Answer 8

British cranked it up, forced impressment of American men to join royal navy
– colonial resentment

Question 9

What was Quartering of Troops? Why did King George wanted war to stop? What treaty ended the French and Indian War?

Answer 9

• quartering of troops in colonial homes
  – if anyone resisted, they were threatened with violence
• King George opened peace negotiations because of how expensive war was getting
• war ended in 1763 with signing of Peace of Paris

Question 10

What was the Treaty of Paris?
What happened to the other European powers? (French, Spanish)

Answer 10

• ended French and Indian War
• Spain ceded Florida to British
• French were ousted from the North American continent
• Spanish were given control over former French lands west of Mississippi
• All lands east of Mississippi River/Ohio River Valley was given to British

Question 11

What were the effects of the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 11

• land in Ohio River Valley was now under British control
• American colonists were hungry for more land
  – began to push westward
  – intensified conflicts with Natives against encroaching colonists in Detroit, military forts in Virginia and Pennsylvania

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