The French and Indian War Plot Outline Summary

1. The French and Indian War Plot Outline Summary

2. Exposition When: 1740’s – 1760’s Where: North America England and France were competing to be the most powerful nation in Europe. This soon expanded into North America. They both wanted control of this “new” continent. Setting Situation

3. Main Characters • Section 3: • French Fur Traders……………French • British Fur Traders…………….British • New Englanders………………..Colonists • Abenaki People………………..Indians • Iroquois Confederacy…………Indians • Gov. Robert Dinwiddle………..British/Colonists • George Washington…………..Colonists

4. Main Characters • Section 4: • General Edward Braddock……..British • William Pitt………………………..British • Jeffery Amberst………………….Colonists • James Wolfe………………………Colonists • Marquis de Montcalm…………….French

5. Conflicts • Section 3: • Britain and French competing for wealth for centuries • British colonists and French settlers fight in the Ohio River Valley • New Englanders capture French Fortress at Louisbourg • Abenaki people and the French attack the British at Deerfield, Mass. • Washington and a militia fight with the French for Fort Necessity

6. Conflicts • Section 4 • Braddock’s troops were ambushed by Native American warriors and French troops. • Native Americans raid Frontier farms in New York to Pennsylvania • Amherst and Wolfe recapture the fortress of Louisbourg • British forces take Fort Duquesne (Fort Pitt) • The British take the capital of New France, Quebec

7. Complications • Section 3: • The League of the Iroquois made an alliance with the British

8. Complications • Section 4: • Braddock is killed

9. Climax The capture of Quebec !!!!

10. Resolution The Treaty of Paris 1763: • France had to give up Canada & its land east of the Mississippi River • Spain gave Florida to G.Britain and in exchange, G.Britain gave Spain the Louisiana Territory * This war marked the end of France being a power in North America. Now only the British and the Spanish were left to compete.