BRITAIN AND FRANCE CLASH

VOCABULARY

• Convert- to change from one thing to another.
• Iroquois Confederacy- a powerful group of Native Americans
• Design- a plan
• Militia- a group of people trained to fight in emergencies

Key People

• George Washington- fought for the British, and militia
• Established a fort named Fort Necessity
• Troops out numbered and inexperienced, still attempted to attack the French forces
• They were quickly forced to surrender to the French
• Washington published an account on the ordeal, thought of as a hero

KEY EVENT

• Albany Plan of Union was adopted for united colonial government
• It was Benjamin Franklin's government
• It called for " one general government"
• Not one single colony approved the plan
• It failed to unite them and soon a full scale war broke out

OTHER INFO

• Britain and France were the two strongest powers in Europe
• They were always competing for wealth
• Britain wanted in on the Ohio River Valley territory
• The French believed it was their territory and didn't want to share
• The Native Americans soon took France's side and raided the British

OTHER INFO ( CONT.)

• The Iroquois Confederacy included the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida
• The Iroquois remained independent by playing the British and the French against each other
• George Washington was 21 years of age when he was sent to tell the French to leave
• Britain's land

QUESTIONS

• 2. How did the Iroquois remain independent from both the
• British and the French?
• 7. How did conflict arise inNorth America between France and Britain

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