1. THE FRENCH AND
INDIAN WAR
(1754-1763)

2. MOVING PAST THE 13 COLONIES
We know have 4 regions in the
colonies:
New England
Middle
Southern
Backcounty – anything West of
the Appalachian Mountains

3. BACK COUNTRY

4. FLASHFORWARD TO LATE 1600s
- France claimed most of the land
in the W. part of N. America (called
New France)
- French, British and Native
Americans started selling fur
- The fur trade would drag all 3
groups into war.

5. OHIO RIVER
VALLEY

6. THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY IS ATTRACTIVE
- Attracted PA fur traders and VA land
companies (both colonist groups)
- French began to get anxious because….
1. The increased British that entered
New France
2. The increased the chance for France
to lose control of key land and rivers
TENSIONS MOUNT = FRENCH AND
INDIAN WAR!!!

7. WAR BEGINS AND SPREADS
- Fought from backcountry to Canada
- Soon to be President, George Washington,
led 1st
British attack on French Fort called Fort
Duquesne.
- Nat. Americans side with British and French
- Treaty of Paris (1763) ended war and ended
nearly all the French controlled in N. America
- Comb. of war and treaty helped to expand
Britain’s Colonial Empire

8. THE BRITISH ARE MEAN!
- British did not treat Nat. Americans as
nicely as the French
- Nat. Americans fought back BIG TIME!
- Due to Nat. American attacks, British
learned they would be unable to control all
the land so they issued the Proclamation of
1763.
- Proclamation FORBADE anyone from
settling land WEST of the Appalachian Mts.

9. NEW COLONIAL IDENTITY
-Colonists = angry  “Didn’t we just
fight (and win) for the right to settle that
land?
- 1st
time of unity for all 13 colonies
after this war
- Growing more unified over the
dispute with Britain

10. THE ACTS

11. - Proclamation of 1763 – No one can
settle land west of the App. Mts.
- King George III made this
proclamation to assert authority and
control colonists.
- This Proclamation was created b/c
Britain couldn’t control that much
land.
- Colonists = MAD!

12. SWEET LIKE THE SUGAR ACT
- Part of the Navigation Acts, which
weren’t that bad until the Sugar Act
was passed in 1765
- This law placed a tax on sugar,
molasses and other products shipped
to colonists

13. -The British gov’t (Parliament) used
this law to raise $ to pay off Britain’s
debt
- Colonists said this tax was not fair
b/c Britain had no right to tax the
colonies and no tax should be created
w/o the colonists consent (agreeing).

14. SIGNED…SEALED…AND
DELIVERED…THE STAMP ACT!
- A tax on anything printed on paper.
- The law required each official paper
document, including newspapers, to
have an official stamp to indicate a
tax was paid.
- Created to raise $$ to pay of
Britain’s debt

15. -The Colonists, led
-by Benjamin Franklin,
-asked King George III
to repeal the act b/c
the colonies boycotted
those goods to avoid
the tax…AND IT
WORKED!

16. CAN’T STAY HERE…THE
QUARTERING ACT
-Required colonists to feed and
house British troops, no matter what
- King George III left10,000 troops in
the colonies – needed a place to stay

17. AIN’T NOTHING BUT A SWEET
THANG…THE TEA ACT!
- Most of the Townshend Acts had
been repealed, but colonists were still
protesting Britain by drinking tea
smuggled in from Holland
- To help British tea merchants, Britain
made a law that only allowed 1
company, East India Trade Co. to sell
tea in the colonies = Boston Tea Party

18. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT…THE
INTOLERABLE ACT!
-The Boston Tea Party made Britain
mad, they passed the Intolerable Acts
to clamp down on resistance in the
Mass. Colony
- These acts were a direct attack on
the colonists’ rights, liberties and
freedoms
- The result = other colonies were
made and offered help to Mass. colony

19. -So they met in Philadelphia and
decided to boycott all trade with
Britain until the Intolerable Acts were
repealed  First Continental
Congress