Notes on French and Indian Wars
Name ______
1.) What was the idea of mercantilism?
2.) Why was the French seen as a bigger threat than the Spanish to the British?
3.) What territories were won by the British?
4.) What was the Proclamation Line?
Why not popular?
5. What was the competition between the French and British over?
6. The ______attack Washington’s troops at ______and forced him to ______.
7. Why did the French fail to send enough troops to fight in America?
8. What was the Purpose of the 1754 Albany Congress?
9. What was the long term purpose of the 1754 Albany Congress?
10. Explain this political cartoon:
11. What were the results of the French and Indian War?
1) Treaty of ______1763 ends the war, and the ______are thrown off the North American continent.
2) ______cedes all of ______territory to ______.
3) ______given to England by Spain in return for _____.
4) ______is now the dominant power in North America and the dominant ______power in the world!
12. How did this impact the colonists?
a) More confident in their ______
b) Myth of ______invincibility shattered
c) Tension and conflict between the ______officers and the ______militias
d) The ______didn’t support the cause wholeheartedly.
e) Americans had to be ______to defend the colonies against the French and Indians
f) Intercolonial ______continues
g) BUT, some of the ______are beginning to be broken down when colonial soldiers and statesmen meet during the war at various times and see all they have in ______
13. What happens after the war?
14. What is the Proclamation of 1763?
15. Why is the Proclamation a problem?
16. What role did William Pitt play in the French and Indian War?
William Pitt (1708-1778) was British secretary of state during the French and Indian War and later served as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Named secretary of state in 1757, Pitt resolved to commit whatever resources were necessary to defeat the French in North America and on the European continent. He provided generous funding to Prussia, Britain's ally in the Seven Years' War, for troops to tie down French forces in Europe. He also funded the expansion of provincial militias in North America. By the summer of 1758, the British had 50,000 men in uniform in North America, serving as British regulars or in colonial provincial regiments—a number equal to the entire white population of New France. Pitt resigned in 1761 when the king refused to pursue a more complete defeat of France or to declare war against Spain.
Pitt's policies led to British success in the French and Indian War. But they also left Britain with a tremendous debt, and a larger empire to administer. During the ensuing controversies between Britain and its America colonies, Pitt sympathized with the Americans, especially in their opposition to the Stamp Act. But as Prime Minister (1766-68) he was unsuccessful in crafting a policy that could reconcile the ambitions of Britain and America.