Section 3.1-3.2 Prelude to War Part 1.

Open Ended

Make a prediction about what this video is foreshadowing.

​The Breakup letter

​It's not us, it all you King George... ouch.

​In 1776, a man wrote the ultimate breakup letter to his King and country.

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​- Declaration of Independence, 1776

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, " 

Multiple Choice

In the Break up "Letter" or Declaration of Independence, all ...

• Swore an Oath of friendship with to their British counterparts

• Stated that Rights were given by the government to people

• That people had certain "natural" rights

• That the Government had the right to govern people without consent.

​Let's rewind events to 1754...

​Before this ugly public breakup-

​People left their home country of Britian to settle in new British lands across the Atlantic ocean. The British colonies offered opportunities for adventurous people to make a new life.

​- Name of Author

England's favorite past time in Europe for hundreds of years was war with its nieghbor, France... " 

​The French loved keeping their rivals out of the Ohio Valley.

​The French and the British both claimed lands in the new Americas, so it was only a matter of time before war came to the colonies...

​British Colonists were becoming crowded on the coast...

Multiple Choice

What young American led a group of British Soldiers into the Ohio Valley to confront the French?

• James Wolfe

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Isaac Brock

Multiple Choice

The war that erupted in the Americas become a "World War" as ____ and ____ fought in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

• Germany and Britain

• India and France

• France and Britain

• France, Britain, Spain, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden

Multiple Choice

The French surrendered which lands to Britain and Spainish at the end of the war?

• Canada, the Ohio Valley & the Lousiana Territory

• France and the Island of Haiti

• Florida and Mexico

• India and Greenland

Multiple Choice

Who were the allies of the French in their war with Britain in the Americas?

• The American Colonist

• The Delaware and Shawnee Indians

• The Pirates of the Barbary Coast

• The Aztecs and Incas

​But we won the war... so the Ohio Valley IS ours to settle.

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​Americans wanted to expand west.

Multiple Choice

The British Colonists voted on passing the Proclamation of 1763 to stop settlement in the Ohio Valley.

• True

• False

• With the assistance of the British Prime Minister

Multiple Choice

Who was the leader of the Native American groups that attacked settlements in the Ohio Valley to drive out British/American Settlers.

• Sitting Bull

• Pontiac

• Washington

• Red Feather

Open Ended

Examining the map, British colonists were largely prevented from settling west because of ...

Multiple Choice

The British King did not want his colonists to settle in the Ohio Valley lands because:

• Because it wanted to sell the land to the Spanish

• Because it would cause more conflict/war with the Native Peoples in the Valley

• Because it wanted sell the lands to it colonists for a profit

• Because it had dangerous animals and forests

Multiple Choice

Many Americans were speculating on land ownership in the Ohio Valley. What is a speculator?

• A person who looks for gold in rivers.

• A person who surveys lands and creates maps

• A person who makes highly risky investments, in hopes of huge returns.