Chapter 5 Lesson 1 The French and Indian War notes handout

1. ___/___________________
Mrs. Gander
Social Studies Period ______
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Chapter 5 Lesson 1: The French and Indian War
(1) European Rivals in N. America
* Three European powers had control over North America in the mid-
1700s.
___________ controlled the thirteen colonies and parts of present
day Canada.
___________ controlled the interior.
___________ controlled present day Florida and present Mexico.
Label the map with the correct locations of the European powers.
 The ___________ wanted to expand into the Ohio Valley, the area just
over the _____________________.

2.  France did not want the expansion because they would not be able to
access their lands in Canada and along the Mississippi River.
 The tension increases and both the French and British try to persuade
the Native Americans to join them.
(2) The French and Indian War Begins
 Major ___________________ is first sent to build a fort in the Ohio
River Valley but the French get there first and build Fort Duquesne.
 Washington then goes back to Fort Necessity to surprise attack the
French.
 In the end _________________ and his ______ men are captured and
forced to surrender.
(3) The Albany Congress
 _______ colonial delegates met in Albany, NY to create an alliance with
Iroquois and an united defense.
 __________ proposes Albany Plan of Union.
 The plan tried to create one general government for the colonies,
called a _____________.
 No one wanted it because they did not want to give up their
_____________________.
(4) A String of British Defeats
 _________________________, who had little background fighting in
North America, moves slowly and nosily to Fort Duquesne in 1755.
 He is fatally wounded along with half of his men.
 Washington is almost killed.

3.  Next two years of fighting saw the British losing
______________ near Lake Ontario and ___________________ near
Lake George.
(5) The Tide of Battle Turns
 New British generals capture _______________, the most important for
in French Canada, and Fort Duquesne in __________.
 Fort Duquesne is renamed Fort Pitt for William Pitt the new head of the
British government and which is _________________________.
(6) The Fall of New France
 1759 the French lost ______________, Crown Point, and Fort
Ticonderoga.
 Battle of Quebec – the city was vital for New France to supply their forts
and was very fortified.
 __________________ had troops swim ashore and climb up a cliff at
night to surprise the French.
 __________________ engaged in fighting and saw Britain victorious.
 Quebec surrendered _______________________.
(7) The Treaty of Paris
 Signed _________ and ended the __________ power in North America.
 ________ gained Canada and all lands France controlled east of
Mississippi River, except New Orleans.
 ___________ kept two islands in Gulf of St. Lawrence and its sugar
growing islands in West Indies.

4.  ____________lost Florida (Britain gained) and gained French lands
west of Mississippi River and New Orleans. They also kept their control
of Central and South America.