Warm Up 09.22.14 Please answer the following question: What is the historical significance of the Seven Years’ War?

Warm Up09.22.14• Please answer the following question:

• What is the historical significance of the Seven Years’

War?

The Seven Years’ War

Background Info:

1749, white settlers move to Ohio Valley Conflict with local Indians & French England was in massive debt from three earlier

wars Officially begins in 1754, with George

Washington leading a small force into western PA.

French & Indian forces did well in first two years, however, eventually Britain turned the tide.

A World Transformed

• Peace of Paris (1763)• France ceded Canada to Britain, • received in return:• sugar islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique• Spain ceded Florida to Britain in return for the

Philippines and Cuba. • Spain also acquired Louisiana from the French.

• France’s empire in North America was finished. DOC A!

• But attempts to pay for the costs of the war led

to events that precipitated the French and the American revolutions.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 4.4 Eastern North America after the Peace of Paris, 1763

Post War Indian Relations

Pontiac’s Rebellion Indians angry about British land grab Rebelled against British rule

The Proclamation Line Quelled rebellion, but wanted peace on the

frontier Prohibited settlement west of Appalachians This was ignored and exacerbated tensions

Pennsylvania & Natives

Pennsylvania and the Indians Seven Years’ War massively changed the

ALL the colonies; but none more than PA! Extremely aggressive stance towards

Indians during the war. Paxton Boys

Ended William Penn’s “holy experiment”

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyBenjamin Franklin produced this famous cartoon in 1754

Colonial Identities

• Colonists: Emerged from the war with a greater sense of collective

identity. Before the war the colonies had been isolated from one

another. The Albany Plan of Union (1754)

• The war mostly intensified American colonists’ sense of themselves as Britons, with all the benefits that came from being British.

• Soon American colonists would come to believe that they could no longer protect their particularly British liberties within the British empire.