Storyboard by Jacob Jeffrey

Context 1

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The British and Colonists wanted to venture more Westward to expand the colonies and explore more of the Americas.

Context 2

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The French started trading with and forming allies with the natives to combat the British who sought to venture westward themselves.

Immediate Causes

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The British started to fight against the also expanding French, leading to the start of the French Indian War.

Important Events 1

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The French returned fire with the battle of Fort Necessity where the Colonists/English lost.

Important Events 2

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With a stronger army and more backing from the British, the colonists and now British conquered their forts with relative ease.

Important People 1

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William Pitt was important because he implemented impressment onto the colonists forcing them to fight in the war. Many people were outraged and rioted the fact saying that they would leave the war.

Important People 2

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During the war Benjamin Franklin was at the Albany Conference where he suggested and came up with a draft for Colonial Unity.

Treaty of Paris

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The main thing that the Treaty of Paris did was for the French to give up all of its colonies in mainland North America

Consequences 1

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With the defeat of the French in the French Indian War the colonists suffered most of the damages. The colonists were forced to pay heavy taxes which them hated and started to rebel against.

Consequences 2

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After the war the British made the colonists pay for most of the costs of war because it was more their war than the British's. Slowly the colonists rebelled but the British had to push back on them to keep them more in check.