Essential Questions: Conflict in the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War

1. What were the causes of the French and Indian War?
  • Native American Perspective,
    • What did they hope to accomplish and/or what would winning have meant for them?
  • French Perspective​
    • What did they hope to accomplish and/or what would winning have meant for them?
  • English Perspective
    • What did they hope to accomplish and/or what would winning have meant for them?​
  • Colonial Perspective​
    • What did they hope to accomplish and/or what would winning have meant for them?
2. Who were the key individuals involved in the French and Indian War? What was their role?
  • George Washington 
  • Tanaghrisson (the 1/2 King)
  • Marquis Duquesne
  • Edward Braddock
  • Marquis de Montcalm
  • William Pitt
  • James Wolfe​
3. What was the course of the French and Indian War? What happened i.e. where were they fought, why was the battle fought and what was accomplished in the following key battles:
  • British defeated at Ft. Duquesne
  • French take Ft. Osage (also known as Fort Oswego)
  • Braddock’s Defeat
  • Fort Necessity
  • Battle for Quebec
  • Battles abroad (International battles)
    • Havana & Manila

4. What were the consequences and outcomes of the French and Indian War?
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Terms of the Treaty of 1763 (be sure not to mix this up with the Treaty of Paris of 1783- ending the American Revolution)
  • Who gained and who lost?

5.  In what ways was the French and Indian War a world wide war?

Your Thesis:
SO WHAT?  While completing your research what conclusions did you draw? Why does this topic matter, how do the events you studied change history? Write a one paragraph thesis that addresses what is important about this subject.

Web links to research, project helps and online presentation assitance

The page above will give you access to numerous websites that can assist you in creating web based projects.  Regardless of your chosen project take a few minutes to review the available web sites, you might find something you were not previously aware of that will be of interest to you!
Within the Alexandria library any books with the call number starting with "REF" or a number are informational texts, conversely any call number starting with "FIC", "PB", or "SC" are fictional texts.  To access books tagged for the Revolutionary war, go to the search page, type in  "ness rev war", and hit search. on the top right hand corner click on the "find more" box. To assist in your search, go to the top drop down menu "unsorted" and sort by "Call Number", this will categorize the fiction and informational texts,posting the informational texts (excluding reference texts) on the top; in addition it will indicate the order of the texts on the stacks.  Identify the call number to find the text on the stacks.

Page Numbers in the Text

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American History
Pages: 69-85
Pages: 98-109
Pages: 183-188
Call To Freedom
Pages: 126-128
Pages: 135-144; 
Page:   129
Pages:  131-134;

Instructor Created Materials

The French & Indian War
Presentation by Spencer Laudie 

Below is a presentation in visual format only.  The accompanying music is from the 2002 film "Last of the Mohicans" and "Scotland the Brave"

These presentations are available to help students complete pages 9-10 in the student workbook

A Review of the French and Indian War: Website created by Lucy P.

The website below provides an outstanding review of the essentials of the French and Indian War.

Student Created Materials

Below is a video talk show created and edited by Jade I on the French and Indian War.  It presents the perspectives of the English, French, Colonists and Natives.
Above is a video presentation by Spencer Laudie, about the French and Indian War.  The presentation, i.e. lecture itself begins approximately 20 seconds into the film clip. 

Instructional Video: Created by Savannah R.

Instructional Lecture & Readers Theater: Sophia Vance

_Suggested Websites for Specialty Area 1

These suggested sites should not limit your search.  They represent only a portion of the online resources available to help you better understand this important era in American History.   As additional sites become available, perhaps in fact by you the list will be updated. 

Suggested Novels for Specialty Area 1

Title: Calico Captive  
Author: Speare, Elizabeth George 
This story is based on a true incident in which Susannah and James Johnson, with their three children and Susannah's younger sister, Miriam Willard, were taken captive by the Indians and held for ransom in Montreal. The story focuses on the effect of Miriam's captivity. Her Puritan views and lifestyle contrast sharply with the life of the French settlers in Montreal, and her loyalties are shaken when she is forced to choose between marriage to a dashing young Frenchman and marriage to a sturdy and studious young English settler. 

Title: Standing in the Light: the Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania 
Author: Mary Pope Osborne 
A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763. 
Title: Look to the hills: the diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl 
Author: Pat McKissack 
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman’s daughter, 13 year old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the new World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and eventually, find a new direction to their lives. 

Title: The last of the Mohicans  
CLASSICAL NOVEL, ADVANCED READERS ONLY 
Author: James Fenimore Cooper ; [abridgement by Timothy Meis] 
An adaptation of the story about the exploits of a young white man and his Mohican Indian friends during the French and Indian War. 
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See Below for Available Films and Audio Podcasts

The War That Made America: Part I

"The War That Made America" brings to life a vastly important—but often misunderstood—period of American history, a period that set in motion forces that would culminate in the American Revolution. The dramatic documentary tells the story of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), which began in the wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier and spread throughout the colonies, into Canada, and ultimately around the world.

Narrated and hosted by Graham Greene, the Academy-Award nominated actor for "Dances With Wolves" and an Oneida Indian whose ancestors fought in this war, "The War That Made America" combines a commitment to accuracy with a compelling filmed portrayal of the dangerous world of the 18th-century frontier. 

A central figure is George Washington, then a brash and ambitious young officer in his twenties hoping to make his reputation in the military, whose blunders actually trigger the war. A primary focus of the series, and a story that has long been distorted or forgotten, is the critical military importance and strategic diplomacy of Native Americans in the conflict between the English and French for the expansion of their colonial empires.  It was a war the British won, but the fruit of their victory contained the seeds of the Revolutionary War.

The War that Made America: Part II

The War That Made America: Part III

The War That Made American Part IV

John Green Crash Course U.S. History

The Seven Year War and the Great Awakening.  Written and produced by John Green. 2012