Conflict leading to French and Indian War

Many European Explorers and settlers faced hardships such as:

• disease and starvation
• storms destroying boats

What is one way Indians helped Explorers?

• Indians taught them how to grow native crops
• Indians taught them how to repair their boats

What were French and Dutch settlers very interested in?

• Corn Trade
• Fur Trade

What was causing conflict between the Native Americans and settlers?

• competition for land
• competition for gold 

In the mid 1700s, the ____________ and the  ____________ struggled for control of North America.

• Spanish; Dutch
• English; French

The French and Indian War was fought between:

• the French and Indians
• The British and the French with most Indians siding with the French

Who won the French and Indian War?

• British
• French