For Monday…

For Monday…• Read pages 106-113

• Know the following…Huguenots, Samuel de Champlain, New France, Beaver, Coureurs de Bois, Voyageurs, Robert de La Salle, Treaty of Utrecht, War of Jenkins's Ear, James Oglethorpe, Louisbourg, Fort Duquesne, George Washington, Fort Necessity, Acadians

• (will be on the website assignment page)

Bell Ringer…

• How was the colony of New France different from the British North American colonies?

• Agenda and Objective: Through a group DBQ paper project students will be able to analyze various ways the French and Indian war altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between Great Britain and the American Colonies.

COLONIAL WARS

Unit 1.6

Chapter 6 Theme

As part of their worldwide imperial rivalry, Great Britain and France fought numerous wars for colonial control of North America, culminating in the British victory in the French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War) that resulted in France’s removal from the continent.

DBQ!

• This week you will be working independently and in groups to explain how the various colonial wars influenced economic, political, and ideological changes between the Colonies and Great Britain.

DBQ! Independent Work

• Read Chapter 6

• Complete Study guide (due 10/22)

• Complete document analysis sheet

• Understand terms sheet

• Chapter 6 MC quiz on (10/22)

DBQ Group work• You and your group will work together creating

an essay to answer the 2004 APUSH DBQ• You will do this through the school’s google

doc account.• You will be writing and editing throughout the

week both in class and outside of class.• Essay is due FRIDAY! You will then peer edit

papers using the AP DBQ rubric.

COLONIAL WARSCOLONIAL WARS

I. New France in Canada

A. France was late in coming

to the New

World

New France c.

1645

B. Quebec colony founded in 1608

1. Samuel de Champlain (“Father of New France”)

2. Became allies with the Hurons and battled against the federated Iroquois Indians

- - Significance: France was kept out of much of the Ohio Valley

C. Government

1. King ruled in autocratic fashion - - No popularly elected assemblies or trial by jury

2. Slow population growth - - Why?

Louis XIV (1643-1715)

Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud,

1701

D. French Expansion

1. Successful relations with Amerindians

2. Beaver trade led to exploration of North America

a. Coureurs de bois

b. Voyageurs

3. Jesuits sought to convert the Amerindians by example rather than by force

4. Posts in Mississippi region and Louisiana (New Orleans)

- --Purpose: block Spanish expansion into the Gulf of Mexico

II. Clash of Empires: England, France, Spain

A. Four world wars fought between Britain and France between 1689 and 1763

1. King William’s War (1689-1697) and Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713)

a. British fought coureurs de bois and their Amerindian allies

b. Treaty of Utrecht, 1713

c. “salutary neglect”

2. King George’s War (1744-1748)

Map of North America in 1702 showing forts, towns and areas occupied by European settlements. Britain (pink), France (blue), and Spain

terrestrial claim (orange)

1702

Map of territorial claims by 1750 in North America before the French and Indian War, that is part of the greater world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763). – possessions of Britain (pink), France (blue), and

Spain (orange,

1750

3. French and Indian War (1754-1763) (Seven Years’ War)

a. Main issue: Ohio Valley

b. George Washington’s Ohio mission

-- Battle near Fort Duquesne, 1754

…and….George got to start his very own

world war!

c. British clamped down on Nova Scotia

d. War widened into the largest war in history, up to that time.

e. Albany Congress (1754): Purposes

i. Make Iroquois allies of Britain ii. Greater colonial unity and defense against France

Benjamin Franklin, May, 1754

Albany Congress, 1754

f. Benjamin Franklin’s plan: Albany Plan for Union

i. Colonial home rule - - Adopted by

delegates

ii. Rejected -- Individual colonies: “not

enough independence” -- British: “gave too much

independence”

iii. Significance: First major step towards colonial political unity

g. General Braddock defeated near Fort Duquesne, 1755

Braddock’s defeat: “…who would have thought it?”

h. William Pitt, “The Great Commoner”: Leader in Parliament -- Took control of the war and led Britain to victory.

i. Fall of Quebec (1760)

-- One of most significant battles in British & U.S. history

-- Resulted in France’s defeat

j. Peace of Paris (1763)

-- French completely removed from North America

-- France ceded all Mississippi- Louisiana region to Spain

-- Spain gave Florida to Britain in return for Cuba

-- British emerged as dominant power in North America

Territorial changes following the French and Indian War: land held by the British before 1763 is shown in red, land gained by Britain in 1763 is shown in pink

III. Friction between the colonies and the mother country

A. American confidence & frustration 1. Colonist contributions 2. British vulnerability 3. British contempt

B. Some colonial resistance to war effort infuriated Britain

1. American shipping 2. Aid to Indians 3. British forbidding of exports

4. Some colonial resistance to war effort

C. Increased colonial expansion -- Spanish &

French barriers gone

D. Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763)

E. Proclamation of 1763

1. Prohibited colonials to move west of the Appalachian Mountains

2. British motive: Settle land disputes with Indians

fairly

3. Colonists infuriated a. Veterans

b. Land speculators

4. Law generally ignored

Map showing the Proclamatio

n Line of 1763