French and Indian War

A major goal of the French in wanting to maintain control over the Ohio Valley was to

• prevent attacks by Native Americans on their forts and outposts

• eventually expand into Canada

• merge their landholdings from Canada to the Mississippi Valley

• exploit the lumber trade

As a result of the French and Indian War,

• relations between the French and American colonists improved dramatically.

• France was able to hold on to Canada but lost the rest of its North American empire.

• the Americans and British developed a mutual respect for each other's military abilities

• Britain felt it necessary to abandon the practice of salutary neglect

The French and Indian War was also known in Europe as

• Queen Anne's War

• King William's War

• The Seven Years' War

• the War of Austrian sucession

The climatic clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of

• the Ohio River Valley

• the Mississippi River

• The Great Lakes

• Cape Britain Island

The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to

• achieve colonial unity

• propose independence of the colonies from Britain

• declare war on the Iroquois tribe

• prohibit New England and New York from trading with the French

In the peacetime agreements that ended the French and Indian War

• the British got all of Canada except Nova Scotia

• England turned Florida over to Spain

• Spain ceded all of Louisiana, including New Orleans to Britain

• France surrendered all of its territorial claims in North America

As a result of the French and Indian war, Great Britain

• gained control of Louisiana

• became the dominant power in North America

• gained exclusive control of the slave trade

• annexed the island of Cuba

The Proclamation of 1763

• prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

• was warmly received by American land speculators

• declared war on Chief Pontiac and his fierce warriors

• opened Canada to American settlement

The Proclamation of 1763 was issued mainly to

• work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem

• oppress the colonists

• show the power of parliament

• punish the Indians

In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763

• American colonists obeyed the law they hated

• relations between the American colonies and the British government improved

• American colonists moved west, defying the proclamation

• the American colonies believed their destiny had been destroyed