GENESEE ACADEMY SOCIAL SCIENCE
LESSON 4A
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COLONIAL WARS

The French and English both claimed a part of the area that would become the United States.
 
Where did their claims meet?  how did each want to use the land?  How did the French and Indian War begin?  What was the goal of the English for this war?  Who changed the English war goals during the F&I War?  What was the outcome of the F&I War?

TERMS TO CONSIDER
 
King William's War
Queen Anne's War
King George's War
Seven Years War
Nathaniel Bacon
Ohio River Valley
George Washington
Fort Necessity
Albany Plan
Edward Braddock
Fort Duquesne  (Fort Pitt)
Fort Niagara
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Louisbourg
Quebec
William  Pitt
Sir William Johnson
Marquis de Montcalm
James Wolfe
Treaty of Paris, 1763
 
 
 

AP EXAM QUESTIONS
2000 PART B
Question 2
Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO of the following groups to the Indians of North American before 1750.
French, Spanish, English

READING TO CONSIDER
AFTER READING:
1. What could the colonies do?
2. What were the limitations?

 
 
 
 
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