What is The French and Indian War, you may ask?
"The French and Indian war was the North American conflict that was part of a large imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as (the Seven year war.) The French and Indian War started in 1754 and it ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain's enormous territory in North American, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the War's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. The French and Indian war resulted ongoing frontier tensions in North America, as both French and British imperials officials and colonist sought to extend each country's sphere of influence in frontier regions. In North American, the war pitted France, French colonist, and their Native allies against Great Britain. The Anglo-American colonists and the Iroquois confederacy, which controlled most of upstate of New York and parts of northern Pennsylvania. In 1753, prior to the outbreak of hostilities, Great Britain controlled all of the 13 colonies up to the Appalachian mountains, but beyond lay New France, a very large, sparsely settled colony that stretched from Louisiana through the Mississippi valley and Great lakes to Canada.
The border between French and British possession was not well defined, and one territory was the upper Ohio River Valley. The French had constructed a number of forts in this region in an attempt to strengthen their claim on the territory. British colonies forces, led by lieutenant colonel George Washington, attempted to expel the French in 1754, but were outnumbered and defeated by the French. When news of Washington's failure reached British Prime Minister Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, he called for a quick undeclared strike. However, his adversaries in the cabinet overwhelmed him by making the public planes, thus alternating the French government.
The border between French and British possession was not well defined, and one territory was the upper Ohio River Valley. The French had constructed a number of forts in this region in an attempt to strengthen their claim on the territory. British colonies forces, led by lieutenant colonel George Washington, attempted to expel the French in 1754, but were outnumbered and defeated by the French. When news of Washington's failure reached British Prime Minister Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, he called for a quick undeclared strike. However, his adversaries in the cabinet overwhelmed him by making the public planes, thus alternating the French government.
The French and Indian war, as it was referred to in the colonies, was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain. England and France had been building toward a conflict in America since 1689. These efforts resulted in the remarkable growth of the colonies from a population of 250,000 in 1700, to 1.25 millions in 1750. Britain required raw materials included copper, tar, and turpentine, they also required a great deal of money, and so they provided that all of these American products be shipped exclusively to England. In an effort to raise Revenue and simultaneously interfere with the french in the Caribbean, a 6 pence tax on each gallon of molasses was imposed in 1733. Enforcement of these regulation became difficult, so the English government established extensive customs service, and vice-admiralty courts empowered to identify, and convict suspected smugglers. These devices were exclusive of, and superior to the colonial mechanisms of justice.
What did GEORGE WASHINGTON do during this war?
George Washington was a general of the French and Indian war. Washington's military experience began in this war. In 1753 Washington was sent as an ambassador from the British crown to the French officials and Indians. The following year he led another expedition to the area to assist in the construction of a fort at present day, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before reaching that point, he and some of his men accompanied by Indian allies, ambushed a French scouting party. The French responded by attacking Washington, Following the ambush, forcing his surrender. Released on parole, Washington. and his troops returned to Virginia.
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Hmmm...I wonder were was the war fought.
Finally the end
Unfortunately for the British, what the victory brought for the future was trouble with Great Britain's American colonies. The war was way expensive, and the British government's attempts to impose taxes on colonists to help cover these expenses results in increasing colonial resentment of British attempts to expand imperial authority in the colonies. British attempts to limit western expansion by colonists and inadvertent provocation of a major Indian war further angered the British subjects living in the American colonies. These disputes would ultimately spur colonies rebellion the eventually developed into a full scale war for independence.
Questions!!!
1. What was another name for the French and Indian War?
A) Lexington and Concord
B) The Militias War
C) The wasn't another name for it
D) The Seven Year War
A) Lexington and Concord
B) The Militias War
C) The wasn't another name for it
D) The Seven Year War
2. Who led the soldiers into The French and Indian war?
A) General Gage
B) George Washington
C) General Ralph Woldo Emerson
D) Hancock
3. What area did the French build a fort in and the British tried to build a fort in? This area was where fighting began in the war?