French & Indian War 1.0

Before the French and Indian War, Native Americans were caught between ...

• a rock and a hard place

• two opposing philosophical systems

• the past and the future

• British colonists on the east coast, and French colonists in the interior

The Iroquois' goal was to keep their land, their way of life, and

control over ____________.

• their supply of coffee

• their future

• all the Europeans

• the whole continent

In the 1750's, the French colonial economy was based on ...

• trade with the

  American Indians.

• manufacturing

• trade with China

• entrepreneurship

People in the British colonies along the east coast wanted to travel west over the mountains because ...

• gold was discovered in Ohio territory

• it had become too hot to live along the east coast

• the mountains to the east were too hard to cross

• Most of the farmland in

  the settled parts of the colonies was already taken.

21 year old _____________ was ordered to confront the French and order them to leave Ohio country.

• John Hancock

• Paul Revere

• Ben Franklin

• George Washington

George Washington attacked the French forces in western Pennsylvania, causing ...

• A massacre of the English army

• much confusion, but few casualties, and an ambiguous outcome

• an international incident that sparked the French and Indian War

• the French to run away and never return