Download French and Indian War

• 1607 – Jamestown - Virginia
• 1620 – Plymouth Rock –
Massachusetts
– Over the next century – huge
influx of people migrating to the
colonies
• By this time – 13 colonies or English colonies
• To the west – French settlements
– They begin to battle over territory - Pittsburgh
– French and Indians against the British and
colonists
– American theatre of the Seven Years’ War (1756)
– Both end in 1763 – Treaty of Paris
• French land becomes British land
• Trade, land to settle
• Britain claimed French
land east of the Mississippi
River
• French lands west of
Mississippi River - Spain
• Treaty ends French power
• Settlement was prohibited
beyond Appalachian
Mountains – land acquired
– Avoiding further wars with
Natives
• This created much
resentment by colonists
toward crown
• British in debt – costly war
• Tax Colonists – pay off debt
– They benefited from war
• 1765 – Stamp Act
– Legal documents, papers
• Need stamp to be legitimate
– No representation in
Parliament for Colonists