Notes from Friday, September 22: Period 4

In class we watched several video clips and went over the reading.
Important stuff: CHAPTERS 1-4 TEST on MONDAY! STUDY!
Notes:

• Trained British Soldiers vs. Recruitees from America=Not Good. They did not get along because of the British's experience vs. the Americans' military inexperience.

The French & Indian War

• Benjamin Franklin's plan: The Albany Plan.
• proposed inter-colonial harmony
• proposed supervision of the Indian trade
• and it proposed raising a militia from all states to work together in times of need
• This Failed. It was immediately rejected by all, almost unanimously.
• It entailed the creation of a Union, which nearly none of the states were ready for.
• 1754-1763 Actual dates of the war, which occured right after this.
• Fort William Henry was seized by the French
• New France was better prepared for conflict than the colonists and British were, but reliance on France and the small French Canadian white population of 55,ooo compared to America's 500,000+ population doomed them.
• William Braddock, for which the long road in Fairfax County is named for today, fought at the Battle of the Wilderness (not the one during the Civil War)
• The French were victorious for quite a while because of their guerilla warfare, which they had picked up from the Indians.
• In 1758, William Pitt took control of the British army, and the tide turned benefitting the British and ultimitely winning them the war.
• Treaty of Paris (one of many in that city) conditions:
• French ceded ALL of Canada and land West of the Mississippi, except for New Orleans.
• In return, France got back ALL of its former Carribean Islands.
• Spain, which had gotten involved in the latter years of the war fighting with its long-time ally, the French, ceded Western Florida to the British.
• In Return, the Spanish got Cuba back.

Sebastian P.