3-4: The French and Indian War

1. Why did France and Britain fight

in the war?
• To gain control of the
Ohio River Valley
• To expand their
empires
• To extend the
hostilities that already
existed between
these two nations in
Europe
2. Why did the British Colonies Fight?

The
Ohio Valley

•A desire to expand westward to the Ohio

River Valley
•Perhaps because of loyalty to Great Britain
 3. Why did Native American’s
Fight?
• To honor military
alliances (With the
French)

• To potentially gain the

benefits of supporting
the victor in the war
 What did Britain gain as a result of
the war?

• Canada

• Virtually all
of North
America
East of the
Mississippi
River
 5. What did Britain lose?

• Lives
• The colonists’
respect
• A good deal of
money
6. What did the Colonies gain as a
result of the war?
• Access to what had been French
territories
 7. What did the Colonies lose?
• Lives

• Profits from trade

(due to increased
taxation to pay off
Britain’s war debt)

• Some rights
commonly held by
British citizens
 9. What did the war cost Native
Americans?
• Lives

• The aid and

friendship of the
French

• French protection
from the British
 George Washington
• Led Virginia in the first
battle of the French
and Indian War (The
French and Native Americans
easily defeated the American
troops)

• He distinguished
himself as a colonel of
the Virginia Regiment
in further battles
 William Pitt
• British Leader in the
French and Indian
War. Under his
leadership the British
were able to reverse
their previous loses
and began winning
battles
 Pontiac
• Native American leader (an
Ottowan Chief) who fought the
British after the war ended by
leading and attack on British
forts

• The Native Americans did not

like that British settlers were
moving west onto their lands
 George Grenville

• Financial expert who was appointed Prime

Minister of Britain in 1763
• He wanted to raise money from the
colonies to help pay off the war debt.
• His first act was to reduce smuggling or
illegal trading-which hurt Britain in lost tax
money
 Sugar Act
• A law passed by Parliament to raise
money
• It cut the import tax on foreign made
molasses (in hopes of stopping smuggling)
• It placed new taxes on other imports that
had not been taxed before (angering the
colonists)
• It strengthened smuggling laws
 Proclamation of 1763
• To prevent further fighting
with Native Americans,
the British government
issued a proclamation
forbidding colonists to
settling west of an
imaginary line along the
Appalachian Mountains
• Colonists ignored the
proclamation