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- The fight between French and British, 1754.
- The Albany Meeting, 1754
- Here Comes William Pitt, 1757
- Today, here on this day, we will be talking about some new changes...
- The French and the British competed against each other to gain wealth and land around the world. The two had a very strong rivalry between them. The French built forts from Lake Ontario south to the Ohio River. The British however built forts in Pennsylvania. At the end of the war, the French did win.
- The Fall of Quebec, and Montreal, 1759
- Both the French and British wanted to have Native American help them. However, the French already had a head start as they were allied with already many Native Tribes. During June 1754, the confederacy consisted of six nations, the mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and lastly Tuscaora. Representatives from the seven colonies met with the Iroquois and Albany. They refused with an alliance, and they remained neutral.
- The Treaty of Paris, 1763
- The French were beating the British in the early years of the war, but there was a turning point in 1757 when William Pitt became Prime Minister of England. He sent more trained British troops. Pitt also wanted to conquer French Canada. The British won a key victory at Fort Louisburg. The same year a British force captured Fort Frontenac, another Fort Duquesne. Then they renamed it Fort Pitt.
- New British Policies
- The capital of New France, Quebec was on a cliff. It was thought to be impossible to attach. In September 1759, the British found a poorly guarded path and, in the night, they overwhelmed the French Guards and went up the path. Then the British defeated the French Army on the Plains of Abraham. The fall of Quebec and Montreal marked the defeat of France.
- The war ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1763. It forced France to give Canada and most of its land to Great Britain. Britain also got Florida from Frances ally, Spain. This treaty marked the end of France as a power. Now North America was in the hands of two European powers, Great Britain and Spain.
- The natives in Ohio River Valley had lost their trading partners and now had to deal with the British. The Britain raised the prices of their goods. The British also refused to pay the natives for using their land and more colonists started settling there. Pontiac, the chief of and Ottawa saw this as a threat, King George also told colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mts. This war and the other left Britain in debt.
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