I. Background to the French and Indian War
A. Competing Claims of the Spanish, French and English
B. Importance of the Ohio River Valley
C. Indians choose sides
D. Outbreak of the War: George Washington and Fort Necessity (1754)
II. British and French Advantages
A. British Advantages
B. French Advantages
C. Albany Plan of Union
III. Early Years of the War - Disaster for the British
A. Fort Duquesne and General Braddock (1755)
B. War in Europe
C. British Losses
IV. British Victories
A. Prime Minister William Pitt (1757)
B. Louisbourg (1758)
C. Victories in the West
D. Battle of Quebec: Gen. Wolfe and Gen. Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham (1759)
E. Fighting ends (1760)
V. Results of the War
A. Treaty of Paris (1763)
1. French give up Canada and claims to Ohio Valley
2. France gives up all territory east of the Mississippi River except for New Orleans
3. France gives Spain New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana that was west of the Mississippi
4. Spain has to give up Florida to England
5. France keeps sugar growing islands in the West Indies
B. Effects on British - American Relations
1. France is no longer a threat
2. British debt
3. British irritation with colonies
4. Changing view in the colonies
5. Effect on Indians
C. Pontiac's Rebellion (1763)
D. Proclamation of 1763