https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2017-09-22 17:05:43 UTC 2023-06-27 09:59:29 UTC hello@padlet.com mjefferson2313 https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221421 All about the Ohio country. 
Fight between the English and the french because it is a multi billion fur trade market.
In the middle of the 18th century, France and England had competing claims.
The first half of the war the French were continuously winning the battles.
French Victory: Fort William Henry]]> 2017-09-22 17:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221421 mjefferson2313 https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221834 Ohio Company: By the 1750's, English colonist, especially the investors in the Ohio company, also hoped to convert the wilderness into good farmland.
Braddock's Defeat (1755)
First battle of French-Indian War. Both commanders were killed Braddock (British)
British take Detroit, Montreal,  also Fort Duquense. (By 1760) This was the end of major fighting in North America.
September 1759-1760: Battle of the Plains of Abraham. James Wolfe in the middle of the night with thousands of soldiers, he scaled the cliff and the British were standing on the Plains of Abraham and were literally face to face with the french and they were defeated.]]> 2017-09-22 17:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221834 mjefferson2313 https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221876 1757-1763
Claiming of land by England and France.
The problems with the French and british were all about the Ohio Country.]]> 2017-09-22 17:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221876 mjefferson2313 https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221924 1753: The Ohio Company moves into the Ohio Country and they settle. (Build little settlements, chop tree down to plant in their own gardens). The French start to attack and drive out the Ohio Company. (Out of the Ohio Country). Ohio Company withdraws from the Ohio Country. The French then built Fort Duquense.
1754: (George Washington) Governor Dinwiddie dispatches 21 year old George Washington to resolve a conflict with the French. 
The Indians attack a French trapper group.
The French start to pursue George Washington.
George Washington creates Fort Necessity.
George Washington was taken back to Fort Duquense.
George Washington cuts a deal and leaves.(deal says he would never come back to the Ohio country)
Albany Congress (1754):  All 13 colonies need to meet to discuss unity, strategy, and common defense. (Albany Plan-Blue Print/Cursor to Unites States Constitution) The council would be comprised of elected representatives.]]> 2017-09-22 17:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190221924 mjefferson2313 https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190947455 William Pitt becomes the prime minister of Great Britain. 
Pitt shifted Great Britain's focus of expelling French out of North America.
Pitt had a surge of money putting more money into certain things that they needed.
Pitt had ordered more troops to help with the war against the French.
Pitt wanted to buy support of North America with promises of fixed territorial boundaries.
The Treaty of Easton, signed in 1758, essentially sealed French's fate]]> 2017-09-25 17:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mjefferson2313/yv1o97oyxepd/wish/190947455